The Public Service Pulitzer cited "the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon, for the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
[5] The series was cited in congressional hearings examining OSHA's record[6] and led to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
[2] Before the Sun, Berzon was a reporter for Red Herring, a business and technology magazine, and worked for the Anchorage Daily News and San Antonio Express-News.
Her coverage of South Pacific islanders who had emigrated to New Zealand due to fears of sea level rise was part of a series[7] that won the George Polk Award for Radio Reporting in 2007.
[10] She was also part of a team of The Wall Street Journal journalists that won the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the Deepwater Horizon crisis.