Clare Baldwin

Clare Baldwin is an American journalist. As a special correspondent for Reuters in the Philippines, she won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018 for reporting on the killing campaign behind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

Early life and education

Clare Baldwin grew up in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Both her parents were teachers. During high school, she did an internship at the local newspaper, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. After graduating from Colony High School, she attended Stanford University, where she majored in English and minored in human biology. Baldwin graduated from Stanford in 2005.

Career

Before joining Reuters in 2009, Baldwin wrote articles for Wired magazine and various regional newspapers. She then worked for Reuters’ San Francisco and New York offices, covering law, business and technology.

In 2018, Baldwin was part of the three-person team that won the Pulitzer for a series of articles that exposed a campaign of deadly violence by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.

In 2019, she was part of the Reuters staff awarded the Pulitzer for a series of articles exposing the military units responsible for the expulsion and murder of Rohinga Muslims from Myanmar.

Honors and awards

• 2018, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, with Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato, for exposing the killing campaign behind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
• 2019, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, awarded to staff of Reuters with significant contributions by Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, for exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, which the awards committee described as “courageous coverage that landed its reporters in prison.”