Awards & Winners

John Bersia

John C. Bersia, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2000, is a global educator and commentator. He serves as Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives, as Director of the Global Perspectives Office and as a University Professor at the University of Central Florida. He is also the Executive Producer and host of the weekly "Global Perspectives Show" on WUCF-TV/PBS, and writes on foreign affairs. Bersia previously served as a Foreign-Affairs Columnist for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services and the Orlando Sentinel, as well as on the latter's Editorial Board. He won the first Pulitzer Prize of the 21st century for the Orlando Sentinel, as well as for its parent organization, the Tribune Company. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Walker Stone Award of the Scripps Howard Foundation, the first-place “Green Eyeshade” editorials award of the Society of Professional Journalists, the annual Media Award for Editorial Excellence of The National Association of Consumer Advocates and other national awards. Before his journalism experience, Bersia worked in the global political-risk analysis and publishing businesses, as well as for the U.S. government. He is the author of World War 4: Confronting Terrorism, serves as Editor of the Worldviews for the 21st Century monograph series, is Interim Co-Chair of The India Center at UCF; co-chairs the UCF Middle Eastern Studies Program; chairs and directs UCF programs on human trafficking awareness and small countries; and chairs and co-directs UCF programs on China-Taiwan issues, global peace and security, and Kurdish political studies. Further, he is the Chair of the Global Connections Foundation, a non-profit, non-ideological, non-political, regional, educational network that promotes international awareness and understanding.

Awards by John Bersia

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Bersia.

2000


Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
(For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.)

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
For his passionate editorial campaign attacking predatory lending practices in the state, which prompted changes in local lending regulations.