PERSON: Anthony Cormier

Journalist

Anthony Cormier is an American journalist with Buzzfeed News, and formerly with the Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Cormier was a co-recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Working at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Cormier and Matt Doug exposed how Florida police officers with multiple complaints and crimes were able to keep their jobs. Their series of reports, “Unfit for Duty,” earned them the 2011 “Print/Online – Small” award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Herald-Tribune the 2012 EPPY award for Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Website with under 1 million unique monthly visitors.

His investigative work with Michael Braga led to a series of reports on how Florida bankers illegally looted their banks during the real estate boom. The series, “Breaking the Banks,” led to lawsuits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and indictments against three bankers. Cormier and Braga received the 2013 “Print/Online – Small” award for the series from IRE, and the 2013 Best in Business award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

Cormier joined the Tampa Bay Times in 2015. Cormier received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting together with Leonora LaPeter Anton, also of the Times, and Braga, who was still with the Sarasota Hearald-Tribune. Their series of reports, “Insane. Invisible. In danger.,” detailed the devastating effects of recurring deep budget cuts in the Florida mental health system. The fallout from the series led to an increase in state appropriations and new legislation aimed at fixing systemic problems.

Cormier earned the 2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism for “Allegiant Air”.

Cormier joined the Buzzfeed News Investigative Unit in early 2017. He received a second Investigative Gerald Loeb Award in 2023 for “Profit, Pain, and Private Equity”.

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