Prize Winner 2018:
Bill O'Driscoll
Bill O’Driscoll is a journalist based in Pittsburgh with more than three decades of experience reporting and writing on arts and culture, the environment and more. In February 2018, he was hired as arts and culture reporter at 90.5 WESA Radio News. He had spent the prior 21 years at the newsweekly Pittsburgh City Paper, including 15 years as arts and entertainment editor.
O’Driscoll was born in Philadelphia and earned a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He has freelanced for publications including E: The Environmental Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He lives in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood with his wife, the photographer Renee Rosensteel, a worm farm, and a bunch of books he hopes to read someday.