Awards & Winners

Jake Hooker

Date of Birth 27-October-1973
Place of Birth Newton
(United States of America, Massachusetts, Middlesex County)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist
Jake Hooker is an American journalist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for investigations done while in China over concerns with how dangerous and poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market. He attended Milton Academy and Dartmouth College where he studied art history. 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. In 2003, he worked for the Surmang Foundation in China.In his free time, he has learned Chinese. He currently works for the New York Times.

Awards by Jake Hooker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jake Hooker.

2008


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
(For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.)

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
For their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.