Suzanne Struglinski, BJ ’00, is the press secretary for legislative affairs with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Rollens, BJ ’04, is a community producer for TribLocal.com in Chicago, Ill.

In the “Human Interest” of the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards competition, Wright Thompson, BJ ’01, of ESPN.com received $10,000 and the Ernie Pyle Award for stories that linked sports figures to some of the year’s top national and international headlines.

Jenna Isaacson Pfueller, BJ ’01, is producing a documentary on second-hand culture called “All Thrifty States.” She traveled across the country during the summer of 2010 and collected scenes and objects in thrift stores. Pfueller said she hopes the documentary will highlight odd things that people own and make a statement about overconsumption in America. … Continued

Rehab El-Buri, BJ ’06, died March 6, 2011, of cancer. She worked in the ABC News Investigative Unit. In 2008, Rehab was instrumental in developing a 20/20 report that investigated how some high-ranking international diplomats in the U.S. would abuse and exploit the domestic workers brought with them from their home countries.

The investigative team of Ben Poston, MA ’07, and John Diedrich of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel were one of the winners of 13 George Polk Awards for 2010. The duo won the criminal justice award for “Wiped Clean,” a series on lax licensing of gun dealers by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms … Continued