Jason Szep


Jason Szep is an American journalist with Reuters who received the Pulitzer Prize in 2014..

Early life and education

Born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1969, Szep is the son of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Paul Szep, formerly of The Boston Globe. Jason Szep studied literature at Bard College and University of Toronto.

Career

Szep has reported from across Asia and North America on a wide range of subjects since joining Reuters in Toronto in 1990, with postings in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Boston, Bangkok and Washington. His roles at Reuters have included Boston Bureau Chief, Southeast Asia Bureau Chief and U.S. National Affairs Editor in Washington. Szep is currently Global Editor of breaking news investigations.

Awards

Szep won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting along with Andrew Marshall for their reports on the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar.
Other honors for his reporting include three Awards for Editorial Excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia, an Osborn Elliott Prize, two Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi awards, a Deadline Club award and a White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award.