Biography

Jake Hooker (October 27, 1973 Newton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers^[1] for investigations done while in China over concerns with how dangerous and poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market.^[2][3][4]

He attended Milton Academy and Dartmouth College where he studied art history.^[2] In 2000, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in China for two years; he taught English in Wanxian. His first published newspaper article about his life in Waxian appeared in The Boston Globe in 2001.^[2] In 2003, he worked for the Surmang Foundation in China.^[3] In his free time, he has learned Chinese. He currently works for the New York Times.^[2][5]

References