3 Indian American Journalists in 'Pulitzer Prize' Judging Panel

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 04 April 2013, 00:43 IST
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Bangalore: Three Indian American journalists got the opportunity to judge the biggest event in journalism, the Pulitzer prizes. The names of the recipients of the award will be announced on the 15th of this month, reports Pravasi Herald.

Peter Bhatia, Davan Maharaj and Raju Narisetti are the ones who joined other top editors in the judgment. They gathered at the Columbia Journalism School and the names of the finalists were sent to the Pulitzer Board for the final selections.

Raju Narisetti is the Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal’s digital network. Prior to this he served as the Managing Editor for ‘The Washington Post’. Narisetti has spent more than 13 years of his journalistic career at the Wall Street Journal in US and Europe, prior to Joining ‘Mint’ and ‘The Washington Post’.

Peter Bhatia, editor of the Oregonian has been serving the newspaper for more than 16 years.  He has been in the field of journalism for more than 35 years, working for various publications.

Davan Maharaj is the editor of the Los Angeles Times and he was named to this post in the year 2011.