Gosh, Pulitzer for Filipino - Reuter's Manuel Mogato.

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Ecstatic, that is how I feel right now. I am so proud that a Filipino has cupped that Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Why? Two reasons: 1. the last time a Filipino won was in 1942, and that was the great Carlos P. Romulo, 2. the Pulitzer is for Americans, and yay, a Pinoy squeezed in. Manuel Mogato, or Manny, contends it was a team effort, and credits all Filipino journalists who kept watch all the longs nights when the drug war commenced. It was only by accident that he received confirmation about the order to kill. The retired police officer was reluctant to divulge the order, wary of the situation. It took him a fortnight to agree, thus the reporting that merited the prize. The war on drugs was not a subject one would like to have won a prize for, but it did. Proved that this journalist deserves the accolade.