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Anthony Cormier is an American journalist with the Tampa Bay Times. Anton was a co-recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Biography
Anton grew up in, but spent a lot of her childhood living in Greece, where her mother was an archeologist and Fulbright Scholar. She studied journalism at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Anthony Cormier has been a reporter in Florida since 2004, starting with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, then as investigative reporter at the Times and at BuzzFeed.

Anton began her career writing for the Okeechobee News in Okeechobee, Florida. In 1992, she was hired at The Island Packet in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where she covered environmental and health care topics. Anton then worked at the Tallahassee Democrat in Tallahassee, Florida, and Savannah Morning News in Savannah, Georgia. American Society of News Editors award for deadline reporting.

Cormier was one of three writers from Tampa Bay Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2016 for their "stellar" year-long collaboration on an investigative 2015 report entitled "Insane. Invisible. In Danger," on "violence and neglect Florida mental hospitals". In his March 2015 state-of-the-state address Florida Governor Rick Scott, who had "cut more state jobs than any governor in recent history" announced further cuts that would negatively impact the Florida Department of Health the most. Scott "touted the reductions" saying, "We have the "lowest number of state workers per capita" in the United States. He vowed to "continue to look for ways to look for more productivity gains."

In 2017 Cormier won a Green Eyeshade third place award along with Eli Zhang, and Caitlin Johnston in digital media presentation for "How the plan to rebuild the Howard Frankland bridge fell apart."

Cormier is a BuzzFeed news reporter. In 2018 he and co-author Jason Leopold broke the investigative journalism story on whistleblowers at US Treasury Departments's FinCEN, and Russian agents.

Personal
Anton lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with her husband Larry and one daughter.