The Woodrow Wilson Center congratulates Public Policy Scholar Sheri Fink and recent Public Policy Scholar Anthony Shadid, recipients of 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting. Senior Scholar John Milton Cooper, Jr. was also a finalist for biography, and former Guest Scholar Gordon S. Wood was a finalist in the history category.
WASHINGTON—The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars congratulates four of its scholars, two of whom just won Pulitzer Prizes and two of whom were honored as finalists. Public Policy Scholar Sheri Fink (pictured) won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, and recent Public Policy Scholar Anthony Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Senior Scholar John Milton Cooper, Jr. was a finalist for biography and former Guest Scholar Gordon S. Wood was a finalist in the history category.
Fink received the Pulitzer for her story "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," about life-and-death decisions doctors were forced to make at a New Orleans hospital following Hurricane Katrina. The 13,000-word story was a collaboration between ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine.
For Shadid, this is his second Pulitzer for international reporting. He received this year's prize for his Washington Post series on the Iraq war. He also won a Pulitzer in 2004 for his coverage during and after the invasion of Iraq. He wrote much of his critically acclaimed book on the subject, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, while a public policy scholar at the Center in 2004.
Senior Scholar John Milton Cooper was a Pulitzer finalist for his biography, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, published by Alfred A. Knopf. And Gordon S. Wood, who was a Wilson Center guest scholar from 1993 to 1994, was a finalist in history for his book, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, published by Oxford University Press.
"The Wilson Center congratulates Sheri Fink and Anthony Shadid on their well-deserved Pulitzer Prizes," said Wilson Center President and Director Lee H. Hamilton. "The impact of Sheri's and Anthony's reporting has been remarkable. Their work, and that of Pulitzer finalists John Milton Cooper, Jr. and Gordon Wood reflects the contribution to the public discourse the Wilson Center strives to make."
