Keith Bradsher
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Keith Bradsher is a business and economics
Education
Bradsher has a public policy master's degree in economics from Princeton University and received his bachelor's degree with highest honors in economics as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] He also attended Hong Kong International School for 4 years.[4]
Career
Bradsher joined the Times in 1989.
He is known for numerous articles, starting in 1997, about the consequences of crashes between sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and other vehicles - including extra damage, injuries, and deaths. He cited statistical evidence that high-riding SUVs may contribute greater force to smaller vehicles and their occupants when hit, with the extra damage being caused by the vehicles' height and design and not just their greater weight. The articles led to the development by automakers of a variety of measures, including hollow, impact-absorbing steel bars below and behind SUV bumpers that Ford Motor Company nicknamed "Bradsher Bars." A 2011 study by the insurance industry found that the redesigns had sharply reduced the death rate in cars hit by SUVs and pickup trucks. Bradsher is also known for writing extensively in 2009 and 2010 that
Awards
Bradsher shared the
Bibliography
- High and Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous vehicles and how they got that way, PublicAffairs, 2002.
References
- ^ "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners - Explanatory Reporting". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ "2013 Journalism Pulitzer Winners". New York Times. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ a b c Keith Bradsher of the New York Times Wins Asia Society Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize for China Green Energy Series, Asia Society press release, May 24, 2010, retrieved 2011-03-08
- ^ "Notable Alumni - Hong Kong International School".
- ^ a b "Keith Bradsher profile", The New York Times, retrieved 2009-03-25
- ^ Pulitzer Prize announcement and photo, retrieved 2014-01-07
- ^ Apple iEconomy series home page, retrieved 2014-01-07
- ^ Author Biography: Keith Bradsher, BookBrowser, 2002-10-28, retrieved 2009-03-25