Geeta Anand

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Geeta Anand is a journalist, professor, and author. She is currently the dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times , as well as The Wall Street Journal and a political writer for The Boston Globe . [1] She currently resides in Berkeley, California, with her husband Gregory Kroitzsh and two children.

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Geeta Anand in 2023

Career

Anand began her career in journalism working for the Rutland Herald between 1990 and 1994 "covering a range of beats, from local government to courts and crime." For the next four years, she worked for The Boston Globe . Starting 1998, Anand began working for The Wall Street Journal writing for its New England regional edition before moving to New York City and covering biotechnology for the same newspaper. [2]

For her work at The Wall Street Journal Anand shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting that was awarded to the Wall Street Journal staff. [3] She earned the 2006 Gerald Loeb Award in the category Beat Writing for her story "The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be". [4] Anand is the author of the book The Cure, [5] which has been adapted into the film Extraordinary Measures .

As of August 2018, Anand joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a Professor of Reporting. [6]

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