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Areddy on Pulitzer Prize-winning Team
Knight Fellowships alumnus James Areddy was a member of the Wall Street Journal team of reporters and researchers that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Areddy was a fellow in 2001-02, from Dow Jones Newswires. He now is a correspondent in Shanghai for the Journal. Pulitzer Prize winning articles on China: Wall Street Journal is Honored With Two Pulitzer Prizes: For Reporting On Stock Options Backdating and On ChinaSource: Dow Jones & Company NEW YORK, April 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The staff of The Wall Street Journal was honored with two Pulitzer Prizes today, the Public Service Gold Medal for uncovering the improper backdating by companies of executive stock options and the International award for reporting on China. The awards were announced by Columbia University and the Pulitzer Prize Board. "These Pulitzer Prizes underscore our commitment to bring readers a unique perspective on news, providing the insight and analysis they demand," said Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. "Our teams of editors and reporters have worked painstakingly this year to unravel the complicated schemes that corporate executives use to backdate potentially lucrative stock options and defraud shareholders and to illuminate and demystify the Chinese business juggernaut." About the Journal's China Reporting The Journal's coverage in 2006 of China's rapid economic growth focused on the dislocations brought on by government policies and institutions that have not kept pace with development. A series of articles by the Journal's nine China-based correspondents and five researchers explored these topics, bringing to light often complex and long-lasting tensions. Factories pump poisons into China's air and waterways, maiming villagers and sending once plentiful wildlife into extinction. Workers mine coal and build skyscrapers for little pay, and often at great peril. And a central government, overwhelmed by rocketing growth and impotent to slow it, takes to spying on its own local governments via satellite to see where development is defying Central Party edict. What they find is that the defiance is nationwide. The following reporters who worked on this coverage were James T. Areddy, Andrew Browne, Jason Dean, Gordon Fairclough, Mei Fong, Shai Oster and Jane Spencer.
About the Pulitzer Prizes More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally given. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories. |
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