Jake Hooker (journalist)

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Jake Hooker (October 27, 1973 Newton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers [1] for investigations done while in China over concerns with how dangerous and poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market. [2] [3] [4]

He attended Milton Academy and Dartmouth College where he studied art history. [2] In 2000, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in China for two years; he taught English in Wanxian. His first published newspaper article about his life in Waxian appeared in The Boston Globe in 2001. [2] In 2003, he worked for the Surmang Foundation in China. [3] In his free time, he has learned Chinese. He currently works for the New York Times . [2] [5]

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References

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  3. 1 2 "The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
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