PETALING JAYA: Malaysia-born journalist Ed Yong has won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for his explanatory reporting of the Covid-19 pandemic. A tweet by the The Pulitzer Prizes on June 12 stated that Yong, a science writer with the American magazine The Atlantic since 2015, has been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. Responding to this, Yong said in a tweet that reporting on the pandemic was the most fulfilling and difficult challenge of his professional life. "I did my best to give our readers a stable platform from which to make sense of a crisis that defied sense. He also thanked his wife - science communicator Liz Neeley - in a tweet on his account.

Source: The Star June 14, 2021 01:18 UTC