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Jason Szep
Journalist

Jason Szep

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Investigating the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya with Reuters.

Rohingya investigation · US jails

Born
1969
Birthplace
Unknown

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Jason Szep

Jason Szep is an American journalist whose reporting and editing have covered human rights, criminal justice and politics.

Early life

Education

Attended Brookline High School and studied literature at Bard College and the University of Toronto.

Career

  1. Reuters career

    International reporting

    Worked across Asia and North America.

  2. 2014

    Pulitzer Prize

    Shared the International Reporting award with Andrew R.C. Marshall.

Selected work

Rohingya investigation

Reuters reporting documenting persecution of the minority in Myanmar.

US jails

Worked on reporting about deaths in American jails.

Beyond work

Family

His father is political cartoonist Paul Szep.

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