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Who won Pulitzer Prize 2021?

Date - 14th Jun 2021

Megha Rajagopalan, a journalist of Indian descent, won Pulitzer Prize 2021 US top journalism award on June 11, 2021. Megha won the prize along with two participants. She won the prize for her groundbreaking investigation reports revealing the infrastructure of prisons and internment camps that were secretly built by China to hold Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

The other two winners are Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times, who won for field reporting, and Kathleen McGrory, who received an award for a series exposing a Sheriff's Office initiative that used computer simulations to identify about 1,000 people who could become criminals in the future.

What is Pulitzer Prize?

This prize has been awarded since 1942 for outstanding reporting on international affairs. Until 1947, this award was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraph Communications - International. It is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, and web journalism, music composition, and literature in the United States. This was established by the provisions of the will of Joseph Pulitzer. These prizes are awarded annually in twenty one categories. Winners receive a certificate and a cash prize of US $ 15,000.

About Megha Rajagopalan

She is a journalist who received the Pulitzer Prize for International Journalism in 2021 for her reporting on Chinese Muslim Uighur mass detention camps in Xinjiang province. She graduated from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in 2008.

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