Jake Hooker (October 27, 1973 Newton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers[1] for investigations done while in China over concerns with how dangerous and poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market.[2][3][4] 
He attended Milton Academy and Dartmouth College where he studied art history.[2] In 2000, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in China for two years; he taught English in Wanxian.  His first published newspaper article about his life in Waxian  appeared in The Boston Globe in 2001.[2] In 2003, he worked for the Surmang Foundation in China.[3] In his free time, he has learned Chinese. He currently works for the New York Times.[2][5] 
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| (2010–2014) |  2010: Andrew Martin, Michael Moss2011: Alexandra Berzon, Douglas A. Blackmon, Ana Campoy, Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Vanessa O'Connell2012: Ken Bensinger2013: Patricia Callahan, Michael Hawthorne, Sam Roe2014: Barton Gellman, Ellen Nakashima, Laura Poitras, Steven Rich, Ashkan Soltani, Craig Timberg
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| Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984 | 
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| 1976–2000 |  Chicago Tribune (1976)Acel Moore & Wendell Rawls Jr. (1977)Anthony R. Dolan (1978)Gilbert M. Gaul & Elliot G. Jaspin (1979)Stephen Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, Joan Vennochi & Robert M. Porterfield (1980)Clark Hallas & Robert B. Lowe (1981)Paul Henderson (1982)Loretta Tofani (1983)Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg & David Wessel (1984)Lucy Morgan, Jack Reed & William K. Marimow (1985)Jeffrey A. Marx & Michael M. York (1986)Daniel R. Biddle, H.G. Bissinger, Fredric N. Tulsky & John Woestendiek (1987)Dean Baquet, William C. Gaines & Ann Marie Lipinski (19)Bill Dedman (1989)Lou Kilzer (1990)Joseph T. Hallinan & Susan M. Headden (1991)Lorraine Adams & Dan Malone (1992)Jeff Brazil & Steve Berry (1993)Providence Journal-Bulletin (1994)Stephanie Saul & Brian Donovan (1995)The Orange County Register (1996)Eric Nalder, Deborah Nelson & Alex Tizon (1997)Gary Cohn & Will Englund (1998)Miami Herald (1999)Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley & Martha Mendoza (2000)
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| 2001–2025 |  David Willman (2001)Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham & Sarah Cohen (2002)Clifford J. Levy (2003)Michael D. Sallah, Joe Mahr & Mitch Weiss (2004)Nigel Jaquiss (2005)Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi & R. Jeffrey Smith (2006)Brett Blackledge (2007)Walt Bogdanich,  & Chicago Tribune (2008)David Barstow (2009)Barbara Laker, Wendy Ruderman & Sheri Fink (2010)Paige St. John (2011)Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, Chris Hawley, Michael J. Berens & Ken Armstrong (2012)David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab (2013)Chris Hamby (2014)Eric Lipton & The Wall Street Journal (2015)Leonora LaPeter Anton, Anthony Cormier, Michael Braga & Esther Htusan (2016)Eric Eyre (2017)The Washington Post (2018)Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan & Paul Pringle (2019)Brian Rosenthal (2020)Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen & Brendan McCarthy (2021)Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington & Eli Murray (2022)Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2023)
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