Eileen Welsome

1994 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting

Eileen Welsome received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 in national reporting while a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune. She was awarded the prize for her stories that reported on the government's testing of toxicity conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during the Cold War.

Welsome graduated in 1980 from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Journalism degree.

She began her journalism career as a reporter for the Beaumont Enterprise after college. Before joining The Albuquerque Tribune staff in 1987, she was a reporter for the San Antonio Light and the San Antonio Express-News.

Welsome also has been honored by the National Headliners Association and the Associated Press and has received almost a dozen awards for her writing.

Source: The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies. Ryan Bauer, "Celebrating Texas Journalism," The Daily Texan, April 1, 1997.