Julie K. Brown

• Award-winning investigative reporter specializing in watchdog stories that uncover wrongdoing, abuse of power, government corruption and abuses of vulnerable people. 
• Exposed inmate abuse, cover-ups and suspicious deaths in the Florida prison system, the third-largest in the nation. The three-year, award-winning project led to an overhaul of the agency, including the resignations of the secretary and inspector general, the firings and arrests of corrections officers, millions of dollars in reforms and sweeping changes in the treatment of mentally ill, disabled, youthful offenders and female prisoners. 
• Investigated criminal justice cases, including a series detailing how a former federal prosecutor, Alex Acosta, negotiated a secret plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, a multimillionaire sex trafficker who molested hundreds of underage girls. The series led to Epstein's arrest, Acosta's resignation as U.S. labor secretary and three different investigations by the Department of Justice and a fourth by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It also led to scrutiny of other people and institutions who enabled him, including Prince Andrew, Harvard University and MIT; and proposed changes in the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act.
• Covered school shootings, hurricanes and other breaking news, uncovering the deeper stories that lie beneath the surface of major tragedies and national events, such as the Parkland school shootings.
• Appeared on local and national radio and television shows as a commentator on topics such as law enforcement, prison reform, racial profiling and the importance of local journalism

"Broken: Jeffrey Epstein" podcast

Non-Fiction New York Times Bestseller, optioned by Sony Entertainment for a film/TVseries 2026

• As night city editor, responsible for supervising the evening news operation, night staff writers, all city desk copy and breaking news stories
• Formerly worked as a news reporter, specializing in breaking news, crime and investigative reporting
• Wrote a series of stories about an epidemic of Hepatitis C infections among Philadelphia firefighters. The stories led to mandatory national testing among public safety workers 
• Covered the plane crash involving John F. Kennedy Jr. and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

• Covered education, breaking news and investigative stories for award-winning suburban Philadelphia newspaper

• Police Reporter for Bethlehem, PA daily newspaper

• Worked for Morning Edition as an intern while in college

For groundbreaking reporting that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women, the justice system that protected him, and, over time, his powerful network of associates and enablers. 

For journalism committed to the public good

For investigating Sexual Assault and Sparking a Cultural Reckoning

For distinguished reporting on corruption

For journalism that has made a lasting impact 

For the staff of the Miami Herald for coverage of the Surfside Collapse

For "Perversion of Justice," a Miami Herald investigation into how sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the criminal justice system

For "Perversion of Justice," a Miami Herald Investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

For journalism that uncovered injustices in the criminal justice system

For "Perversion of Justice."

First place, Investigative Reporting, "Perversion of Justice."

For efforts in exposing civil rights abuses in the Florida prison system

Co-winner with the New York Times,

for "Cruel and Unusual," a series of stories that led to overhaul of Florida Prisons

Best of Show 2014

Investigative Reporting 2014 for "Cruel and Unusual."

Won Story of the Year 2014 (Best of Show)

Won first place in the domestic print category for a series of stories that led to reform of Florida Prisons

2015 for "Cruel and Unusual"

2015 for "Cruel and Unusual"

2013 for Best Beat Reporting

For stories on the Florida prison system

Minor: Political Science

GPA: 3.8 Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Member of the National Journalism Honors Society