Megha Rajagopalan is an American journalist of Indian descent who works at
The New York Times
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. She won the 2021
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
This Pulitzer Prize
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at
BuzzFeed News
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"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" (
Uighurs
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).
Rajagopalan, who was a 2010
Fulbright Fellow
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to China, speaks Mandarin. She has reported from 23 countries in Asia and the Middle East on stories ranging from the
North Korea
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n nuclear crisis to the peace process in
Afghanistan
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.
In 2018, she was forced from China, where she was living at the time, likely because of her work on sensitive issues such as surveillance and the incarceration of ethnic minorities.
Rajagopalan graduated in 2008 from the
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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at the
University of Maryland
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, and has been the recipient of several prizes including the 2020 Kim Wall Award from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Mirror Award for reporting on the misuse of social media. She was also a finalist for the 2021 Orwell Prize.
External links
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Twitter
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References
Living people
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners
American women journalists of Asian descent
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women writers
American women writers of Indian descent
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
BuzzFeed people
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