Knight科学新闻奖学金项目主任Boyce Rensberger说：

     Usha Lee McFarling, who was Knight Fellow in 1992-93, won this year's Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for a series she did, with a colleague, in the Los Angeles Times called "Altered Oceans." It's about environmental damage to the world's oceans. There's a post about it on the KSJ Tracker today with a link to the series online. Outstanding stuff. I believe Usha is the first Knight alum to get the Pulitzer. We're all pleased to be associated with her through the fellowship.

 

post on the KSJ Tracker:

 

The lone science journalist among this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners is Usha Lee McFarling, who shares the Explanatory Journalism award with two colleagues at the LA Times for their five-part series called “Altered Oceans.” The official citation says the award is “for their richly portrayed reports on the world’s distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials.” The Pulitzer is only the latest of an extraordinary collection of prizes garnered by McFarling, writer Kenneth Weiss and photographer Rick Loomis. Their work was previously honored by awards from the American Geophysical Union, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Institute for Biological Sciences, the John B. Oakes award from the Columbia School of Journalism and the George Polk Award. The Web version of their series is, indeed, impressive. The Tracker spotted it last July. McFarling is an alum of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship (sponsor of the KSJ Tracker), having spent the 1992-1993 academic year at MIT. Ironically, she is no longer at the Times, having left daily journalism last year.

-BR