Alexandra Berzon

The managing editor of the Las Vegas Sun says he'll retire next month. Michael J. Kelley said Wednesday he plans to split time between his hometown of Kansas City, Mo., and Maryland, where his daughter and two grandchildren live. Kelley is 67. He started in newspapers in 1960 and has been managing editor at the Sun since 1997. In April, the Sun won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for stories about construction safety and worker deaths at resort projects in Las Vegas. Kelley says he told Sun President and Editor Brian Greenspun last summer that he planned to retire. He notified his staff ... Read Full Story

The Las Vegas Sun on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service — journalism’s most prestigious award — for its investigation of construction deaths on the Las Vegas Strip and the failures of government, management and labor unions to protect workers. Judges singled out Sun staff writer Alexandra Berzon for “courageous reporting” in persevering against closed doors and intimidation. Her reports, coupled with editorials written by David Clayton and Matt Hufman, led to congressional hearings and worker-safety reforms. Berzon, 29, may have been the last Sun employee to learn of the award. When the prize was announced, Berzon was at a court hearing ... Read Full Story

Alexandra Berzon's Pulitzer-winning work on contruction worker safety is credited with saving lives. Alexandra Berzon 's work on the unusually high death rate among Las Vegas construction workers was recognized with the highest honor in American journalism, a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. But it's also being credited with saving lives. From the U.S. News & World Report blog The Inside Job: A year ago, the Las Vegas Sun reported on a rash of construction-worker deaths on the booming Vegas Strip. In 16 months, the deaths had reached the number recorded throughout the whole 1990s Strip construction boom. Reporter Alexandra Berzon found that the ... Read Full Story

The Las Vegas Sun, and reporter Alexandra Berzon in particular, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for its coverage of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip.Ms. Berzon did yeoman's work to earn her Pulitzer. After nine workers lost their lives over a 16-month period, she wrote more than 50 articles exposing the state's lax enforcement of Read Full Story