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]

References

  1. "HarperCollins author biography". HarperCollins . Archived from the original on April 1, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2019 via Internet Archive.
  2. "Making her mark". Deccan Herald . 28 June 2003. Archived from the original on 22 December 2003. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  3. "The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved December 23, 2009.
  4. Lowe, Mary Ann (June 27, 2006). "2006 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management". UCLA . Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  5. Publisher's web page for The Cure . William Morrow. 29 August 2006. ISBN   978-0-06-073439-8 . Retrieved December 23, 2009.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand joins faculty". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. May 23, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2018.