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| Steve Coll, former managing editor of the Washington Post, won the 2005 Pulitzer for General Non-fiction. |
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| Suketu Mehta was a finalist in the category Coll won; the first South Asian to be a finalist for general non-fiction. |
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| Geeta Anand, healthcare reporter of The Wall Street Journal, shared in a 2003 Pulitzer for Explanatory Journalism.
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| Barry Bearak, co-South Asia bureau chief for The New York Times, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer for International Reporting.
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| Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian, winner of 2001 the staff Public Service Pulitzer gold medal.
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| Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer prize in fiction.
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| Photo by Sayyid Azim. One of several photos that won the Associated Press staff a 1999 award for spot news photography... NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 11, 1998: Members of the Red Cross and Kenyan military remove a body from the collapsed building next to the U.S. Embassy.
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| Columbia University President George Rupp (right) presents Will Englund and Gary Cohn with the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (for stories on the shipbreaking industry in India).
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| John F. Burns, New Delhi bureau chief of The New York Times, at a SAJA meeting in May 27, 1997, two days after he received his second Pulitzer Prize. PHOTO: Jay Mandal/On Assignment |
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- 2003
Explanatory Journalism
Geeta Anand, reporter at The Wall Street Journal, shared a staff prize for Explanatory Journalism. The Pulitzer policy is if more than three reporters are involved, the prize goes to the staff.
Official citiation:
"Awarded to The Wall Street Journal Staff for its clear, concise and comprehensive stories that illuminated the roots, significance and impact of corporate scandals in America. (Moved by the jury from the Public Service category.)"
Her two stories in the series were:
History and Science: In Waksal's Past: Repeated Ousters.
Trial Heat: Biotech Analysts Strive to Peek Inside Clinical Tests of Drugs
(written with Randall Smith).
See more on Anand (from SAJA.org).
- 2001
Public Service gold medal
Peter Bhatia, executive editor of The Oregonian, which won the staff award for public service.
Official citation:
"Awarded to The Oregonian, Portland, for its detailed and unflinching examination of systematic problems within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, including harsh treatment of foreign nationals and other widespread abuses, which prompted various reforms."
See more on Bhatia (from SAJA.org).
- 2000
Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin).
See the citation and work (from SAJA.org).
- 1999
Spot News Photography: Sayyid Azim of the Associated Press shared a staff prize for coverage of the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya.
Official citation: "Associated Press Staff for its portfolio of images following the embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania that illustrates both the horror and the humanity triggered by the event."
See the citation and work (from Pulitzer.org).
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Reporting: Dr. Gobind Behari Lal of Universal wire service (a US citizen of Indian origin) shared a prize with four others for coverage of Harvard's tercentenary.
Official citation: "John J. O Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee, Gobind Behari Lal and David Dietz of New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, AP, Universal Service and Scripps-Howard for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University."
More on Dr. Lal
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