Megha Rajagopalan
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Megha Rajagopalan is an American journalist of Indian descent who works at The New York Times.[1] She won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting at BuzzFeed News "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).[2][3][4][5]
Rajagopalan, who was a 2010 Fulbright Fellow to China, speaks Mandarin. She has reported from 23 countries in Asia and the Middle East on stories ranging from the North Korean nuclear crisis[6] to the peace process in Afghanistan.[7]
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.[8]
Rajagopalan graduated in 2008 from the
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- ^ "The New York Times Expands International Investigations Team in London". The New York Times Company. 2022-06-24. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- ^ Nashrulla, David Mack, Tasneem (11 June 2021). "BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China's System For Detaining Muslims". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan wins Pulitzer prize". Business Standard. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Indian-origin journalist bags Pulitzer for exposé on China's vast detention camps for Muslims". The Economic Times. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ Rajagopalan, Megha (January 8, 2016). "What influence? Chinese Koreans wonder after North Korea nuclear test". Reuters.
- ^ Rajagopalan, Megha; Jha, Nishita (12 September 2019). "As Peace Talks With The Taliban Collapse, Afghan Women Demand To Be Heard". BuzzFeed News.
- ^ Ramzy, Austin; Wong, Edward (23 August 2018). "China Forces Out Buzzfeed Journalist". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Kim Wall Award 2020". Overseas Press Club of America. 28 September 2021.
- ^ "2021 Journalism Prize Short List". Orwell Foundation.
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