Pulitzer Prize awarded to two Indian origin journalist

• Rajagopalan, along with two other contributors — Alison Killing and Christo Buschek — won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports
• Her report exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region.

• Tampa Bay Times'' Neil Bedi won for local reporting.
• Neil Bedi along with Kathleen McGrory has been awarded the prize for the series exposing a Sheriff's Office initiative that used computer modeling to identify people believed to be future crime suspects.

Pulitzer prize:

• It was established in 1917 and is administered by Columbia University and Pulitzer Prize Board.
• It is given for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.

• It is awarded in the name of Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher who gave money to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Prize.
• Each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.