By By Carl Samson
Indian American journalist Megha Rajagopalan won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize on Friday for her coverage of China’s detention camps in Xinjiang.
The recognition: Rajagopalan won the award for International Reporting with Alison Killing and Christo Buschek for BuzzFeed News, the first for the website since its founding in 2012.
-
The team received the accolade “for a series of clear and compelling stories that used satellite imagery and architectural expertise, as well as interviews with two dozen former prisoners, to identify a vast new infrastructure built by the Chinese government for the mass detention of Muslims.”
-
The Prize administration recognized six articles from the team, with the first three being part of a series published on Aug. 26, 2020.
-
Rajagopalan, according to BuzzFeed News, was the first to visit an internment camp in 2017, at a time when the Chinese government reportedly denied the existence of such places.
In a tweet, Rajagopalan also shared her father’s “understated Indian dad reaction” to the news. After her post went viral, her father called her “with a heartfelt response that was definitely not understated!”
Read the rest @ https://news.yahoo.com/indian-american-journalist-wins-pulitzer
