Rupa Shenoy
Rupa Shenoy has been twice chosen as the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority Fellow in Urban Journalism. As a fellow, she was an investigative reporter at The Chicago Reporter for three years. There, she broke a story showing that the Chicago Police Department failed for 10 years to publish reports on the number of officers who are accused of abusing civilians. She won the Chicago Headline Club's Peter J. Lisagor Award for an investigation of the discrepancies between recidivism rates of black and Latino ex-offenders.
Shenoy went on to work as a staff reporter at The Daily Herald, the third largest newspaper in Illinois. At the Herald, she wrote a series of investigative articles showing that the federal Environmental Protection Agency knew about possible cancer-causing radioactive material buried under a suburban neighborhood but didn't inform residents or take action. The stories forced a cleanup. In January, Shenoy joined Medill, where she is training to tell investigative stories through print, the Internet and broadcast formats.
