Alix M. Freedman
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Alix Marian Freedman (born November 25, 1957, in New York City) is an American journalist, and ethics editor at Thomson Reuters.
Freedman was raised in New York City, where she attended the Chapin School before graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy (1975). She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in history and literature.
She is the recipient of several awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award. Freedman received the George Polk Award in 1999, making her family the first to have two generations to win the award. Her father, Emanuel R. Freedman, had won the Polk award in 1956.
Career
Freedman gained her first experience in journalism writing articles for her school newspapers, first a few articles for The Exonian, at Phillips Exeter and then for The Harvard Crimson. At the time, she "didn't see herself continuing in journalism," even though her father, Emanuel Freedman, was a journalist. However, she did go into journalism.
In 1979, she was hired as a news assistant at The New York Times and worked there until 1982.
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