Alix M. Freedman is an American journalist

Journalist

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, and ethics editor at Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

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She won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

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She won the 1999 George Polk Award.

Life

She wrote for the Harvard Crimson. She graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 with a BA, and MA.
She worked for The New York Times and for BusinessWeek magazine.
She worked for the Wall Street Journal, from 1984 to 2011, becoming a senior special writer, deputy managing editor, and Page One editor, in 2011.

External links

• "Embracing the Complexities", American Journalism Review, June 1999
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/alix-freedman-leaves-wall_n_952103.html
• http://www.newsbios.com/newslum/freedman.htm