Connie Walker and the staff of Gimlet Media were awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in the Audio Reporting category for the podcast series Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's.
This was the second season of Stolen, and it focused on abuse at an Indigenous residential school in Canada with direct ties to Walker's family.
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Walker's months-long investigation into St. Michael's Residential School exposed more than 200 allegations of sexual abuse against priests, nuns, and staff.
- Walker dug into her father's troubled past and found the abuse extended to other members of her extended family.
- The season's seven episodes blended a personal search by Walker with investigative reporting about the abuse of hundreds of Indigenous children at St. Michael's.
- The show earned numerous awards prior to winning the Pulitzer Prize, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, an American Society of Magazine Editors (Ellie), and an honorable mention for the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.