Paul Salopek
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Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962 in Barstow, California) is a journalist and writer from the United States.
He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was raised in central Mexico. Salopek has reported globally for the Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, National Geographic Magazine and many other publications. In January 2013, Salopek embarked on the "Out of Eden Walk", a seven-year walk along one of the routes taken by early humans to migrate out of Africa, a transcontinental foot journey that will cover more than 20,000 miles funded by the National Geographic Society, the Knight Foundation and the Abundance Foundation.
Life
Salopek received a degree in environmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. Salopek has worked intermittently as a commercial fisherman, shrimp-fishing out of Carnarvon, and most recently with the scallop fleet out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1991. His career in journalism began in 1985 when his motorcycle broke in Roswell, New Mexico and he took a police-reporting job at the local newspaper to earn repair money.
Career
Salopek worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1996 to 2009, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked for National Geographic from 1992 to 1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. Salopek's article on Africa's mountain gorillas appeared on National Geographic's October 1995 front page. For the El Paso Times, he reported on US-Mexico border issues. He was Gannett News Service's bureau chief in Mexico City in 1990.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1998 for two articles focusing the Human Genome Diversity Initiative. In 2001, he received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for reporting Africa. "For his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa," Columbia University President George Rupp honoured Salopek "firsthand."
Salopek was a general assignment reporter on the Tribune's Metropolitan staff, covering immigration, the climate, and urban affairs. In Johannesburg, he spent several years as the Tribune's bureau chief. "Shattered Sudan: Drilling for Oil, Hoping for Peace" Salopek wrote from Sudan for a 2003 National Geographic article, "Shattered Sudan: Drilling for Oil, Hoping for Peace."He wrote "Who Rules the Forest?"
In September 2005, Africa for National Geographic investigated the effects of war in Central Africa. While on a freelance basis for National Geographic in Darfur, Sudan, he was ambushed and jailed for more than a month by pro-government military forces for more than a month.Salopek taught an undergraduate seminar on reporting from the developing world at Princeton University in the fall of 2009 as part of Princeton's Journalism Program.
