Article: Filipino American wins Pulitzer for Virginia Tech massacre report

Filipino American wins Pulitzer for Virginia Tech massacre report

MANILA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Jose Antonio Vargas, a 27-year-old Filipino American, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on an astonishing shooting spree in the United States, media reports said on Tuesday.

Vargas, having worked as a journalist for the past 10 years, is a reporter for the Washington Post, which won six Pulitzer awards this year, including best breaking news reporting for its coverage of the April 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre, where South Korean student Seung- Hui Cho killed 32 people before committing suicide.

Vargas wrote two stories on America's deadliest shooting incident, Philippine cable news ...

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