Jason Szep is an American journalist with

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who received the Pulitzer Prize in 2014.

Early life and education

Born in Scituate, Massachusetts, Szep is the son of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

Paul Szep Paul Michael Szep (born July 29, 1941) is a Canadian political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the ''Boston Globe'' from 1967 to 2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice ...

, formerly of

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

. Jason Szep graduated from

Brookline High School Brookline High School is a four-year public high school in the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a part of Public Schools of Brookline. The Headmaster is Anthony Meyer who holds a Master of Education in Teaching and Curriculum from Harvard ...

and studied literature at

Bard College Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark. Founded in 1860, ...

and

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

Career

Szep has reported from across Asia and North America on a wide range of subjects since joining Reuters in Toronto, with postings in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Boston, Bangkok and Washington. His roles at Reuters have included Boston Bureau Chief, Southeast Asia Bureau Chief, International Affairs Editor, and U.S. National Affairs Editor in Washington. Szep is currently International Political Investigations Editor.

Awards

Szep won the 2014

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic R ...

along with Andrew Marshall for their reports on the violent persecution of the

Rohingya The Rohingya people () are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an ...

, a Muslim minority in

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. Other honors for his reporting include three Awards for Editorial Excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia, an Osborn Elliott Prize, two Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi awards, a Deadline Club award, a White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award, and a George Polk Award.

References

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