Tony Bartelme

Tony Bartelme, an American journalist and author, is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. He has twice been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

Awards

In 2013, Bartelme's series about high insurance rates was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory writing and winner of the Sigma Delta Chi award for non-deadline reporting for papers with circulations between 50,000 and 150,000. In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series about a neurosurgeon's work to teach brain surgery in Tanzania. In 2010, Bartelme was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. In 2008, Bartelme won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for a story about the effect of China's growth on local economies. In 2006, Bartelme won the Journalism category in the Phillip Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment for his Post and Courier series on the ecological riches and the plight of the Francis Marion National Forest in coastal South Carolina, "Under Fire". Bartelme won the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors award for international perspective for newspapers under 150,000 circulation.