Leonora LaPeter Anton is an American journalist with the Tampa Bay Times.
[1] Anton grew up in Connecticut, but spent a lot of her childhood living in Greece, where her mother was an archeologist and Fulbright Scholar.
That same year, she won the American Society of News Editors award for deadline reporting.
[2] Anton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2016 for a series entitled "Insane.
[1] The series, co-authored by Michael Braga and Anthony Cormier, unveiled the violence and neglect taking place at state-funded mental hospitals in the state of Florida.