Stephen Kurkjian

Stephen A. Kurkjian is an American journalist and author. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting reporting in 1972 and 1980, and was a member of The Boston Globe investigative Spotlight Team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize's Gold Medal for Public Service for its coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within Boston's Roman Catholic Archdiocese in 2003. He was also awarded the George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994. He won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 1995.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Personal life

Stephen Kurkjian is of Armenian descent. His father, an artist, was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.^[6][7] The well-known sportswriter Tim Kurkjian is his cousin.^[8]

References

1. "Stephen Kurkjian". Stephenkurkjian.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
2. "Stephen A. Kurkjian - resume". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
3. e (2015-03-07). "Story Behind the Book: Stephen Kurkjian’s "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist." - Books". Bostonglobe.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
4. "Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church". Boston.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
5. Taylor, Art (2015-04-02). "A new look at a legendary art heist in ‘Master Thieves’ by Stephen Kurkjian". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
6. Kurkjian, Stephen (22 April 2014). "Kiss My Children’s Eyes: A Search for Answers to the Genocide Through One Remarkable Photograph". Armenian Weekly. ...my grandfather had been killed in the genocide, yet my father, a three-year-old in 1915, had survived to come to America to thrive.
7. Kurkjian, Stephen (18 April 1993). "Roots of Sorrow". Boston Globe.
8. Gregorian, Alin K. (January 2, 2011). "Armenian Mirror-Spectator Celebrates 78th with Gala". Armenian Mirror-Spectator (Baikar Association). Retrieved 14 July 2015.