Indian journalists Anand RK and Suparna Sharma have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their work highlighting digital surveillance and cyber fraud. Anand and Sharma won the award, announced on Monday, in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category. They share the award with Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg. According to The Pulitzer Prizes website, the award-winning work titled "trAPPed", produced for Bloomberg, narrates the "riveting account" of a neurologist in India who was held under a "digital arrest" through her phone, using a blend of "visuals and words" to underscore the "growing global challenges of surveillance and digital scams". The Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University, are regarded as among the highest honours in journalism, literature and music composition, recognising excellence in reporting and storytelling.
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Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of the Associated Press won in the feature photography category.
'I would just like to say thank you for standing by us always. It's an honour and a privilege beyond any we could have ever imagined,' Yasin said on Twitter
Yasin and Khan are journalists based in Srinagar, while Anand is based in Jammu.
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