Megha Rajagopalan among two Indian- origin journalists to win Pulitzer

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region.

Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News is among two Indian-origin journalists to have won the prestigious award.

Tampa Bay Times’ Neil Bedi won for local reporting. Bedi along with Kathleen McGrory has been awarded the prize for the series exposing a Sheriff’s Office initiative that used computer modelling to identify people believed to be future crime suspects. About 1,000 people were monitored under the programme, including children.

Pulitzer prizes are awarded yearly in 21 categories. In 20 of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a USD 15,000 cash. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

-Team Mysoorunews