Article: Journalist imprisoned in Sudan has local ties: Two-time Pulitzer winner, born in Barstow, facing charges of espionage.

Byline: Howard Decker

Aug. 29--BARSTOW -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who started his life in Barstow in 1962 now sits in a Sudanese jail.

Paul Salopek, a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, was charged Saturday with espionage three weeks after pro-government forces detained him while he was on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine. One of the counts he is facing is for writing "false news," said representatives from the Chicago Tribune.

Salopek, who is based in South Africa, is believed to have lived in Barstow for the first six years of his life. He was raised in central Mexico and attended college at ...

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