Patrick Winn

Patrick Winn is an investigative journalist who covers rebellion and black markets in Southeast Asia. Winn enters the worlds of guerrillas and drug traffickers to mine stories that otherwise go ignored. His work has appeared in many outlets — The New York Times, NPR, the BBC — and he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (also known as the ‘poor man’s Pulitzer’) as well as a National Press Club award. Winn is also a three-time winner of Amnesty International’s Human Rights Press Awards among other prizes. He is currently Southeast Asia correspondent for The World, heard on NPR member stations across the US.

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