What immigration rights activist was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 of the Virginia Tech massacre?
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Jose Antonio Vargas Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of "The Washington Post" team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print. Vargas also has worked for the "San Francisco Chronicle", the "Philadelphia Daily News", and "The Huffington Post". He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013 film, "Documented", which CNN Films broadcast in June 2014.
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Virginia Tech shooting The Virginia Tech shooting, also known as the Virginia Tech massacre, occurred on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows), approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.
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Asra Nomani Asra Quratulain Nomani (born 1965) is an India-born American activist and writer who taught journalism at Georgetown University. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Daniel Pearl.
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Joshua Friedman Joshua Friedman is an American journalist who worked 32 years for newspapers and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985. He formerly chaired the Committee to Protect Journalists and directed International Programs at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At the journalism school he also directed the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, inaugurated in 1939, which annually recognizes outstanding coverage of the Americas (the Western hemisphere) by journalists based there. He worked at Columbia as either full-time or adjunct faculty since 1992.
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Brian Avery (activist) Brian Avery (born 1979) is an American who, while volunteering for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank town of Jenin, was shot in the face by Israel Defense Forces on April 5, 2003. The shooting, which according to Human Rights Watch was "unprovoked and did not occur in the context of any apparent hostilities", caused Avery to suffer permanent disfigurement.
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Craig Flournoy John Craig Flournoy (born June 26, 1951 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA) is a journalism professor at Southern Methodist University and a former investigative reporter for "The Dallas Morning News", at which his work included coverage of the latter portion of the civil rights movement.
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Robert B. Semple Jr. Robert B. Semple Jr. (born August 12, 1936, in St. Louis, Missouri) is the associate editor of "The New York Times" editorial page, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
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Bill Hunter (journalist) William Bradley "Bill" Hunter (November 2, 1928 - April 23, 1964) was an American crime reporter for the Long Beach, California "Independent Press-Telegram". Hunter's 16-page special on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, "Three Days in Dallas", was awarded the 1964 "spot news reporting" award of the California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest". A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Hunter had previously worked as a court reporter there for five years before becoming a crime reporter. On March 22, 1964, Hunter wrote a story for the "Press-Telegram" saying that Oswald had "assuredly" killed Kennedy.
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Heather Ann Thompson Heather Ann Thompson (August 17, 1963) is an American historian, author, activist, college professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History for her work "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy".
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Virginia Abernethy Virginia Abernethy (born 1934) is a Cuban-born American academic. She is professor emerita of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has published research on population demography and immigration. She ran for Vice President of the United States in 2012 alongside Merlin Miller for the American Freedom Party, a party that promotes white supremacy.
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Haynes Johnson Haynes Bonner Johnson (July 9, 1931May 24, 2013) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, best-selling author, and TV analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for "The New York Times".
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Mark Whitaker (journalist) Mark Whitaker (born September 7, 1957) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and media executive. From 2011 to 2013, he was Executive Vice President and managing editor for CNN Worldwide. He was previously Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, succeeding Tim Russert after his fatal heart attack in June 2008. He oversaw all Washington-based reporting and production for NBC and MSNBC, had executive responsibility for "Meet the Press" and supervised the network's election and political coverage, in addition to appearing as an on-air analyst. Before moving to Washington, he served as chief deputy to NBC News President Steve Capus in New York.
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Rick Reiff Richard "Rick" Reiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Orange County, California.
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Mark Worth Mark Worth is an American whistleblower advocate, investigative journalist, public interest activist, author and publisher. He is the founder of many organizations, publications, campaigns and initiatives.
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Patrick Farrell (photojournalist) Patrick Farrell (born July 1, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photojournalist for the Miami Herald.
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Andrea Elliott Andrea Elliott is an American journalist and a staff writer for "The New York Times". She received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born imam living in Brooklyn.
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David Bacon (photojournalist) David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject.
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2011 Pulitzer Prize The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 18, 2011. "The Los Angeles Times" won two prizes, including the highest honor for Public Service. "The New York Times" also won two awards. No prize was handed out in the Breaking News category. "The Wall Street Journal" won an award for the first time since 2007. Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" picked up the Fiction prize after already winning the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. Photographer Carol Guzy of "The Washington Post" became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes.
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Howard Van Smith Howard Van Smith, born Howard Lockwood (April 6, 1909 – August 14, 1987), was an American journalist. A longtime staffer for "The Miami News" and several other newspapers, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959.
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Amy Harmon Amy Harmon (born September 17, 1968) is an American journalist. She won a Pulitzer Prize as a correspondent for "The New York Times" covering the impact of science and technology on everyday life. Harmon uses narrative storytelling to illuminate the human dilemmas posed by advances in science. In 2013, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
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Dustin Lance Black Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer and LGBT rights activist. He has won a Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for the 2008 film "Milk".