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The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Audio Reporting

Finalist: Eyder Peralta, Solomon Fisseha, Alsanosi Adam and Halima Athumani of National Public Radio

For their compelling, accessible and empathetic stories on the complicated war and threats to democracy in East Africa, an area of the world that rarely gets sustained coverage.

Nominated Work

Biography

Eyder Peralta is NPR's Africa correspondent. For the past five years, he has traveled the African continent, reporting on everything from wars to coups to features on everyday life. He joined NPR in 2008 as an associate producer and previously worked as a features reporter at the Houston Chronicle. Peralta was born amid civil war in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and grew up in Miami. He now lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with his wife and three daughters.

Solomon Fisseha was actually a tour operator in Ethiopia before he became a journalist. Over the past eight years, he has used his knowledge of every part of the country to work as a field producer for a number of international news organizations, including NPR. He grew up with his grandmother in war-torn northern Ethiopia. He studied financial accounting at Addis Ababa University, and now lives in Addis with his wife and two daughters.

Alsanosi Adam is an award winning Sudanese filmmaker. He co-created one of the longest-running radio drama series on reintegration in South Sudan, where he has also used the medium to peace build. His journalistic work has appeared on NPR, the BBC, al-Jazeera and Deutsche Welle. His documentary Losing Oakland won the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award in 2016. He holds a masters of Journalism in Documentary Film Production from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Khartoum.

Halima Athumani is a digital and broadcast journalist based in Kampala, Uganda. She began working as a reporter covering politics, health, human rights and social affairs in 2010. Previously, she anchored a newscast on 93.3 KFM in Kampala. Her work appears on Voice of America, The Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, the BBC and NPR. Athumani graduated with a degree in mass communication from the Islamic University in Uganda, Kampala Campus.

Winners

Prize Winner in Audio Reporting in 2022:

Staffs of Futuro Media, New York, N.Y. and PRX, Boston, Mass.

For “Suave,” a brutally honest and immersive profile of a man reentering society after serving more than 30 years in prison. Audio Reporting

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Audio Reporting in 2022:

Mike Hixenbaugh, Antonia Hylton, Frannie Kelley, Reid Cherlin and Julie Shapiro of NBC News

For “Southlake,” a riveting and insightful account of an anti-Critical Race Theory movement in a Texas community, a phenomenon that has reverberated through school districts across the country.

The Jury

Sitara Nieves(Chair)

Faculty, The Poynter Institute

Sumi Aggarwal

Editor-in-Chief, Reveal | from The Center for Investigative Reporting

N’Jeri Eaton

Head of Audio and Podcast Programming, Netflix, Los Angeles, Calif.

Renita Jablonski

Director of Audio, The Washington Post

Jacqueline Petchel

Professor of Practice, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

Bilal Qureshi

Culture Writer and Radio Journalist, New York City

Christina M. Tapper

Executive Producer, Spotify, Los Angeles, Calif.

Winners in Audio Reporting

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2022 Prize Winners

Feature Writing

Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic

For an unflinching portrait of a family’s reckoning with loss in the 20 years since 9/11, masterfully braiding the author's personal connection to the story with sensitive reporting that reveals the long reach of grief.
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