Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider, who died in 2017, spent most of his career working as an investigative reporter, traveling the world documenting injustices. His work for the Pittsburgh Press resulted in two Pulitzer Prizes. He won dozens of other honors for investigations at The Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, AOL News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Schneider specialized in public health investigations. His disclosures about the asbestos poisoning of hundreds of miners and their families...See more

Andrew Schneider, who died in 2017, spent most of his career working as an investigative reporter, traveling the world documenting injustices. His work for the Pittsburgh Press resulted in two Pulitzer Prizes. He won dozens of other honors for investigations at The Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, AOL News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Schneider specialized in public health investigations. His disclosures about the asbestos poisoning of hundreds of miners and their families in Libby, Montana, led to two books: An Air That Kills and, 10 years later, an expanded edition called An Air That Still Kills.Schneider founded a data journalism program, one of the first in the industry, while holding a distinguished chair in journalism at the University of Indiana. He was a former member of the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and led the investigative team in the Scripps Howard Washington, D.C. Bureau. He continued reporting until his death, at age 73, in Montana. See less