Eileen Welsome (born March 12, 1951) is an American journalist and author. She received a

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the United States. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National. Li ...

in 1994 while a reporter for ''

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'' for a 3-part story titled "The Plutonium Experiment" published beginning on November 15, 1993.Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune made history with 'The Plutonium Experiment'
, ''Albuquerque Tribune'', Joline Gutierrez Krueger, February 22, 2008. She was awarded the prize for her articles about the government's

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conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during the Cold War. Welsome also has received a George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Gold Medal, the Heywood Broun Award, as well as awards from the National Headliners Association and the Associated Press.The University of Texas at Austin
Eileen Welsome: 1994 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting
In 1999, Welsome wrote the book '' The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War''. In 2000, Welsome received the

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/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and the PEN Center USA West Award in Research Nonfiction for ''The Plutonium Files''. Welsome began her career in journalism as a reporter for the ''Beaumont Enterprise''. She also worked for the ''San Antonio Light'' and the ''San Antonio Express-News'' before joining ''The Albuquerque Tribune'' staff in 1987. Welsome graduated from the

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in 1980 with a

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degree.

Bibliography

*Welsome, Eileen. ''The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War''. New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 1999. *Welsome, Eileen. ''The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: a True Story of Revolution and Revenge''. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2006. *Welsome, Eileen. ''Healers and Hellraisers: Denver Health's First 150 Years''. Denver, CO: Denver Health Foundation, 2011. *Welsome, Eileen. ''Deep Roots: AspenPointe and Colorado Springs, Together Since 1875''. 2013. *Welsome, Eileen. ''Dream Delivered: The Community Health Center Movement in Denver''. 2016.

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Welsome discusses ''The General and the Jaguar''
at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War Federal Radiation Testing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Welsome, Eilen Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners American women journalists Moody College of Communication alumni 1951 births Living people 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women 21st-century American women

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