BOSTON (PRWEB) September 22, 2022 Report for the World today announced the selection of 11 new host newsrooms, an expansion of its global presence to five
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Katherine Boo, Washington, D.C.-based author and journalist, Gail Collins, Opinion Columnist for The New York Times, and John Daniszewski, Vice President & Editor-at-Large for Standards for The Associated Press, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The trio succeeds ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg and Simon & Schuster Vice President and Executive Editor Mindy Marqués González, who shared the post during 2020-2021.
Katherine Boo is a nonfiction writer who has worked for the Washington CityPaper, the Washington Monthly, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker magazine. She received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 for a Post investigation documenting how the District of Columbia had systematically hidden from public view the wrongful deaths of disabled individuals in its care. A 2012 book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” examined how global inequality, exploitation and corruption stunted the futures of families in a slu