Sara Fritz

Sara Fritz became publisher of Youth Today in April 2010. Fritz also serves as executive director of the American Youth Work Center, a nonprofit corporation that operates both Youth Today and an international training program for youth workers.

During her career in journalism, Fritz spent nearly two decades as an investigative reporter for The Los Angeles Times, winning Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She also served as White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, managing editor for Congressional Quarterly and Washington bureau chief for The St. Petersburg Times.

Since leaving daily journalism in 2002, Fritz has worked in the field of nonprofits: first as executive director of The Faith & Politics Institute in Washington, then as founder of the Prince Edward Partnership for Success, a racial reconciliation program in southern Virginia. She served as fundraiser for the partnership, which provides mentoring for youth.

Fritz’s journalism awards include the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress and the Times-Mirror Journalist of the Year in 1997. She has served as president of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. She is a  former officer of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

She has co-authored two books about campaign financing, Handbook of Campaign Spending and Gold Plated Politics, and is completing a book about the history of race relations in Prince Edward County, Va., where all public schools were closed in 1959 for five years when they were ordered to integrate.