It takes a village, says M’sian-born Pulitzer winner

Job well done: Yong with wife Neeley. — Photo taken from Yong’s Twitter account

PETALING JAYA: Reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic was the most fulfilling and difficult challenge of his professional life, says Malaysian-born science journalist Ed Yong, who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize.

“I did my best to give our readers a stable platform from which to make sense of a crisis that defied sense. I’m sad these stories were ever necessary, but I hope they made a difference, ” he said in a tweet.The 40-year-old, who has been working for US magazine The Atlantic since 2015, won the Pulitzer for explanatory journalism, for his reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic.