Geeta Anand
{{Short description|American journalist}}
Geeta Anand is a journalist, professor, and author. She is currently the dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal and a political writer for The Boston Globe.{{cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/27948/Geeta_Anand/index.aspx|title=HarperCollins author biography|website=HarperCollins|access-date=February 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401110353/http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/27948/Geeta_Anand/index.aspx|archive-date=April 1, 2014|via=Internet Archive}}
She currently resides in Berkeley, California, with her husband Gregory Kroitzsh and two children.
Career
Anand began her career in journalism working for the Rutland Herald between 1990 and 1994 "covering a range of beats, from local government to courts and crime." For the next four years, she worked for The Boston Globe. Starting 1998, Anand began working for The Wall Street Journal writing for its New England regional edition before moving to New York City and covering biotechnology for the same newspaper.{{cite web |title=Making her mark |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jun28/she1.asp |website=Deccan Herald |access-date=22 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031222184657/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jun28/she1.asp |archive-date=22 December 2003 |date=28 June 2003}}
For her work at The Wall Street Journal Anand shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting that was awarded to the Wall Street Journal staff.{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-57|title=The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting|access-date=December 23, 2009|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}} She earned the 2006 Gerald Loeb Award in the category Beat Writing for her story "The Most Expensive Drugs and How They Came to Be".{{Cite web |url=http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/2006-Gerald-Loeb-Award-Winners-7157 |title=2006 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management |last=Lowe |first=Mary Ann |date=June 27, 2006 |website=UCLA |access-date=February 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202154444/http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/2006-Gerald-Loeb-Award-Winners-7157 |archive-date=February 2, 2019 |url-status=dead }} Anand is the author of the book The Cure,{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/curehowfatherrai00anan|title=Publisher's web page for The Cure|website=HarperCollins|access-date=December 23, 2009|isbn=978-0-06-073439-8|url-access=registration}} which has been adapted into the film Extraordinary Measures.
As of August 2018, Anand joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a Professor of Reporting.{{cite web|url=https://journalism.berkeley.edu/pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-geeta-anand-joins-faculty/|title=Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand joins faculty|website=UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism|access-date=September 24, 2018|date=May 23, 2018}}
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Category:American women journalists
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