
Sacha Pfeiffer
Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for NPR's Investigations team and an occasional guest host for some of NPR's national shows.
Pfeiffer came to NPR from The Boston Globe's investigative Spotlight team, whose stories on the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, among other honors. That reporting is the subject of the movie Spotlight, which won the 2016 Oscar for Best Picture.
Pfeiffer was also a senior reporter and host of All Things Considered and Radio Boston at WBUR in Boston, where she won a national 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast reporting. While at WBUR, she was also a guest host for NPR's nationally syndicated On Point and Here & Now.
At The Boston Globe, where she worked for nearly 18 years, Pfeiffer also covered the court system, legal industry and nonprofit/philanthropic sector; produced investigative series on topics such as financial abuses by private foundations, shoddy home construction and sexual misconduct in the modeling industry; helped create a multi-episode podcast, Gladiator, about the life and death of NFL player Aaron Hernandez; and wrote for the food section, travel pages and Boston Globe Magazine. She shared the George Polk Award for National Reporting, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, among other honors.
At WBUR, where she worked for about seven years, Pfeiffer also anchored election coverage, debates, political panels and other special events. She came to radio as a senior reporter covering health, science, medicine and the environment, and her on-air work received numerous awards from the Radio & Television News Directors Association and the Associated Press.
From 2004-2005, Pfeiffer was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she studied at Stanford Law School. She is a co-author of the book Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church and has taught journalism at Boston University's College of Communication.
She has a bachelor's degree in English and history, magna cum laude, and a master's degree in education, both from Boston University, as well as an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Cooper Union.
Pfeiffer got her start in journalism as a reporter at The Dedham Times in Massachusetts. She is also a volunteer English language tutor for adult immigrants.
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Thailand says at least 9 are dead following fighting that broke out with Cambodian soldiers along the border. The fighting is triggered by a border dispute between the two Southeast Asian countries.
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The White House is under pressure to release documents from the the Jeffrey Epstein case, Columbia agrees to pay over $200 million in federal settlement, Trump's new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies.
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The Trump administration is under pressure to release more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. That's even after a Florida judge declined to release grand jury documents from the probe.
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Tree disputes between neighbors are very common. So what happens when a tree is illegally removed from your property? What are the legal limits on cutting down trees? Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Israel Piedra, a civil litigation lawyer in New Hampshire.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich about Trump's criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
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Columbia University agreed to pay $200 million to the federal government in order to resolve multiple federal agency investigations. The settlement will restore access to billions of dollars in federal research funding, resuming frozen grants and opening up opportunities for future research opportunities.
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GOP Lawmakers have approved funds for the Kennedy Center under the condition that the opera house be renamed after the first lady. It's the latest big change for the arts organization under Trump.
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As Democrats push to release Epstein-related files, a former Justice Department official says the public may never see the full details.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who co-sponsored the resolution for public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Republican strategist Rina Shah about why some GOP lawmakers are defying President Trump and Speaker Johnson to demand the release of the Epstein files.