{"id":337437,"date":"2022-05-10T02:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T08:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337437"},"modified":"2022-05-10T03:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T09:04:49","slug":"danish-siddiqui-among-4-indians-wins-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/danish-siddiqui-among-4-indians-wins-pulitzer-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish Siddiqui among 4 Indians wins Pulitzer prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Danish Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters news agency have won the Pulitzer award, for their &#8220;images of COVID&#8217;s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Siddiqui, 38, an award-winning journalist was killed during an assignment in Afghanistan\u00a0 July last while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is Siddiqui\u2019s\u00a0 second Pulitzer Prize. He received the prestigious award in 2018 as part of the Reuters team for their coverage of the Rohingya crisis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among the awardees is Sanna Irshad Mattoo, a Kashmiri girl who has won the award.\u00a0 Sanna holds Master&#8217;s in Convergent Journalism from the Central University of Kashmir. She has her work published in international media outlets including Al Jazeera, TIME and TRT World. She has also done a fellowship with the prestigious Magnum Foundation in 2021.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She is the fourth photographer from Jammu and Kashmir who has won a Pulitzer. In 2020, three photographers from the Union Territory working for the AP won the award.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters news agency have won the Pulitzer award, for their &#8220;images of COVID&#8217;s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place.&#8221; Siddiqui, 38, an award-winning journalist was killed during an assignment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337439,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337437\/revisions\/337439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}