Kevin Sack

{{Short description|American journalist}}

Kevin Sack, an American journalist, is a senior reporter for The New York Times.{{cite news |url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/behind-the-cover-story-kevin-sack-on-his-friendship-with-a-lost-boy/ |title=Behind the Cover Story: Kevin Sack on His Friendship with a Lost Boy |first=Rachel |last=Nolan |date=9 December 2013 |access-date=21 April 2019 |newspaper=NY Times |publisher=The New York Times Company}}

Sack shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2001 for a New York Times series on race.{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2003-National-Reporting |title=Alan Miller and Kevin Sack |year=2003 |work=The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners |access-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150625121303/http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2003-National-Reporting |archive-date=25 June 2015}}

While at The Los Angeles Times, he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with Alan Miller, for their revelatory and moving examination of a military aircraft, nicknamed "The Widow Maker," that was linked to the deaths of 45 pilots.{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2003-National-Reporting |title=The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners. National Reporting |year=2003 |access-date=21 April 2019 |work=2003 Pulitzer Prize |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424124329/http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2003-National-Reporting |archive-date=24 April 2009}}

He was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2015-International-Reporting |title=The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners. International Reporting |year=2015 |work=2015 Pulitzer Prize |access-date=21 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828050238/http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2015-International-Reporting |archive-date=28 August 2015}} Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Sheri Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Sack, and Ben C. Solomon.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/business/media/21pulitzer-winners-finalists.html |title=2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music |date=20 April 2015 |access-date=21 April 2019 |newspaper=NY Times |publisher=The New York Times Company}}

Career

Before joining the Times, Sack was a national correspondent in the Atlanta bureau of The Los Angeles Times, Atlanta bureau chief and correspondent for The New York Times, and a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Education

Sack is a graduate of Duke University, 1981, with a B.A. in history. He attended the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa on a Rotary Foundation fellowship.

References

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  • http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/behind-the-cover-story-kevin-sack-on-his-friendship-with-a-lost-boy/
  • http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2015-International-Reporting

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