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- Louise Kiernan
Louise Kiernan, now a writing coach for the Chicago Tribune, was the lead writer on "Gateway to Gridlock," a report on the American air-traffic system, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Since she joined the Tribune as an intern in 1992, Kiernan has run the paper's urban-affairs team; worked on the Sunday magazine staff; reported from abroad; and contributed to the newspaper's features, commentary, books and travel sections.