[1][2] Pyle got a BA in French from Mills College and a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University.
[5] Of the Pulitzer nomination, Pyle said "We're so proud of Amy Julia and Shoshana; they've worked tirelessly on this story and they're not done.
"[5] Likewise, Stanford University's Journalism Program noted that "under her editorial leadership, the organization has won a George Foster Peabody award for its investigation into opiate prescriptions by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
"[6] They also noted that Pyle, "along with the LA Times staff, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for spot news writing for coverage of the earthquake that rocked the city in the previous year.
Occidental College wrote up some of her views on journalism, which she shared at a 2017 panel with Ewin Chemerinsky and Salam Al-Marayati:Mainstream journalists constantly wrestle not only with how to define objective journalism, but what their First Amendment rights are as individuals and what that means for their reporting, Pyle said.