Paul Salopek
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Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962, in Barstow, California)[1] is a journalist and writer from the United States.[2][3][4] He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was raised in central Mexico.[5] Salopek has reported globally for the
Life
Salopek received a degree in
Career
Salopek reported for the
In 1998 he won the
Salopek was a general assignment reporter on the Tribune's Metropolitan staff, reporting on immigration, the environment and urban affairs. He spent several years as the Tribune's bureau chief in Johannesburg. Salopek reported from Sudan for a 2003 National Geographic story, "Shattered Sudan: Drilling for Oil, Hoping for Peace." He wrote "Who Rules the Forest?" from Africa for National Geographic in September 2005, examining the effects of war in Central Africa.[11] While on freelance assignment for National Geographic in Darfur, Sudan, he was ambushed and imprisoned for more than a month in 2006 by pro-government military forces.[5]
In the fall of 2009, Salopek taught an undergraduate seminar on reporting from the developing world at Princeton University as part of Princeton's Journalism Program.
Out of Eden Walk
In January 2013, Salopek embarked on a walk along one of the routes taken by early humans to migrate out of Africa, initially scheduled to take seven years. The transcontinental foot journey will cover 24,000 miles, beginning in Africa, in Ethiopia, across the Middle East and through Asia, via Alaska and down the western edge of the Americas to the southern tip of Chile.[12] The project, entitled Out of Eden Walk, is an independent IRS-classified 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization.[13] Media and funding partners include the nonprofit's primary sponsor, National Geographic Society, as well as the Knight Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, and the Abundance Foundation. As a nonprofit, the Out of Eden Walk project relies on public support and donations to survive.[14] Out of Eden Walk is a laboratory of slow journalism that engages with the major stories of our time—from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival—by walking alongside the populations who inhabit such headlines every day. The mission is connecting humanity through three pillars: journalism, education, and a unique storytelling archive of multimedia and text content. In addition to immersing readers in the lives of people encountered en route—the nomads, villagers, traders, farmers, and fishermen who rarely make the news—the walk is growing a global community of readers and storytellers focused on the power of people-to-people connectivity and meaningful reportage as an antidote to misinformation, polarization, and fear.[15] When the trek ends, the walk will have generated a global mosaic of stories, faces, sounds, and landscapes highlighting the pathways that connect us to each other—a mostly digital archive of our shared humanity at the start of a new millennium.[16] [17] [18] [19] He has walked with hundreds of local people along the route thus far, who are hired not as guides but as Walking Partners,[20] and was accompanied by Arati Kumar-Rao in India, among others.[21] In October 2021, after a 20-month hiatus in Myanmar along the Out of Eden Walk route due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he made it to China and is continuing the walk. [22]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune". Pulitzer Prize. Archived from the original on January 9, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ Former El Paso Times reporter starts day 1 of a 7-year walk, El Paso Times, 11 Jan 2013
- ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ "Travel Pioneers: Paul Salopek". BBC Travel. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ a b c d "Sudan charges Tribune ace with writing 'false news'". Associated Press. 2006-08-27. Archived from the original on August 29, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ "[1]"Columbia Global Centers lecture, Amman, Jordan, 2013
- ^ Roberts, Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Brandon (2013-05-09). "Out Of Eden Walk - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Out of Eden Home Page". Out of Eden Walk. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ a b Chamberlain, Ted (2006-08-26). "Spying Charge Brought Against Geographic Reporter in Sudan". National Geographic. Archived from the original on August 31, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ National Geographic Magazine. 2006-08-26. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ a b c Jones, Tim (2006-08-26). "Tribune correspondent charged as spy in Sudan". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
- ^ "What do you pack for a 7 year trip?".
- ^ Roberts, Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Brandon (2013-05-09). "Out Of Eden Walk - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "2023 Fundraising Campaign". Out of Eden Walk. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "National Geographic Out of Eden Walk". National Geographic Out of Eden Walk. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Out of Eden".
- ^ "Out of Eden Walk". outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com. National Geographic. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ "Out of Eden Walk". www.outofedenwalk.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ Society, National Geographic. "Find a National Geographic Explorer". Archived from the original on March 8, 2013. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ "National Geographic Out of Eden Walk". National Geographic Out of Eden Walk. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Gandhi, Divya (13 June 2023). "Surviving the shadowlands: Interview with Arati Kumar-Rao, artist and author of Marginlands". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "Out of Eden Walk – Chapter 6". Retrieved 10 July 2021.
External links
Articles
- Shattered Sudan: Drilling for Oil, Hoping for Peace (February 2003 National Geographic)
- A Stroll Around the World (November 2013 "New York Times" )