- Richard Read
Richard Read (born 1957) is a
Pulitzer Prize -winning Americanjournalist .Born in
St Andrews ,Scotland and raised inCambridge, Massachusetts , Read graduated fromAmherst College in 1980 and worked for a Massachusetts crime commission before moving toPortland, Oregon to become a reporter for "The Oregonian ".In 1986, Read received a fellowship from the
Henry Luce Foundation , which sent him toBangkok, Thailand , to work for a year as a reporter for "The Nation", a Thai newspaper. Read moved in 1987 to Japan, where he freelanced for "The New York Times ", "The Christian Science Monitor ", "Euromoney " and the "Yomiuri Shimbun ". Read became the first foreign correspondent for a Pacific Northwest newspaper when he opened "The Oregonian"’s Asia Bureau inTokyo in 1989. He served on the board of theForeign Correspondents' Club of Japan . He returned to America in 1994.In 1996-1997, Read was a
Nieman Foundation fellow atHarvard University . He reported in Peru in 1997 as anEisenhower Exchange Fellow .Read won the
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999 for a series that dramatized the global effects of theAsian financial crisis through the movement of a container offrench fries from a Washington-state farm to aMcDonald's restaurant inSingapore . The series also received theOverseas Press Club award for best business reporting from abroad.In 2000 he received the Oregon governor’s award for achievement in international business, and in 1999 and 2002 he was named the state’s international citizen of the year. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from
Willamette University . From 2007-2008, he was president of the Board of Directors ofThe International School , a full-immersion language elementary school in Portland.He was also one of four reporters on a team that won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2001 for stories on the U.S.Immigration and Naturalization Service . The team also received the Bruce Baer award for investigative reporting, the Unity Media Award and the American Immigration Lawyers Association media leadership award.In 2005 Read was a keynote speaker in a series of conferences held at
Pontificia Universidad Católica Santa María de los Buenos Aires , where he discussed American public opinion ofArgentina and foreign affairs.References
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1999/explanatory-reporting/bio/ Richard Read biography] via pulitzer.org
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2001/public-service/ 2001 Pulitzer public service citation]
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