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Paul Salopek was born on 9 February, 1962 in Barstow, California, is an American journalist and long-distance walker (born 1962). Discover Paul Salopek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 9 February 1962
Birthday 9 February
Birthplace Barstow, California
Nationality United States

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1962

Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962, in Barstow, California) is a journalist and writer from the United States.

He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was raised in central Mexico.

Salopek has reported globally for the Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, National Geographic Magazine and many other publications.

1984

Salopek received a degree in environmental biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984.

1985

His career in journalism began in 1985 when his motorcycle broke in Roswell, New Mexico, and he took a police-reporting job at the local newspaper to earn repair money.

1990

In 1990, he was Gannett News Service's bureau chief in Mexico City.

1991

Salopek has worked intermittently as a commercial fisherman, shrimp-fishing out of Carnarvon, and most recently with the scallop fleet out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1991.

1992

He worked for National Geographic from 1992–1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria.

1995

The October 1995 cover story for National Geographic was Salopek's piece on Africa's mountain gorillas.

He reported on U.S.-Mexico border issues for the El Paso Times.

1998

In 1998 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for two articles profiling the Human Genome Diversity Project.

2001

In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for work covering Africa.

Columbia University President George Rupp presented Salopek with the prize, "for his reporting on the political strife and disease epidemics ravaging Africa, witnessed firsthand as he traveled, sometimes by canoe, through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo."

Salopek was a general assignment reporter on the Tribune's Metropolitan staff, reporting on immigration, the environment and urban affairs.

He spent several years as the Tribune's bureau chief in Johannesburg.

2003

Salopek reported from Sudan for a 2003 National Geographic story, "Shattered Sudan: Drilling for Oil, Hoping for Peace."

He wrote "Who Rules the Forest?"

2005

from Africa for National Geographic in September 2005, examining the effects of war in Central Africa.

2006

While on freelance assignment for National Geographic in Darfur, Sudan, he was ambushed and imprisoned for more than a month in 2006 by pro-government military forces.

2009

Salopek reported for the Chicago Tribune from 1996 until April 30, 2009, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the fall of 2009, Salopek taught an undergraduate seminar on reporting from the developing world at Princeton University as part of Princeton's Journalism Program.

2013

In January 2013, Salopek embarked on the "Out of Eden Walk", originally projected to be a seven-year walk along one of the routes taken by early humans to migrate out of Africa, a transcontinental foot journey that was planned to cover more than 20,000 miles funded by the National Geographic Society, the Knight Foundation and the Abundance Foundation.

In January 2013, Salopek embarked on a walk along one of the routes taken by early humans to migrate out of Africa, initially scheduled to take seven years.

The transcontinental foot journey will cover more than 21,000 miles, beginning in Africa, in Ethiopia, across the Middle East and through Asia, via Alaska and down the western edge of the Americas to the southern tip of Chile.

The project, entitled Out of Eden Walk, is funded by National Geographic Magazine, the Knight Foundation and the Abundance Foundation.

The project is designed as a laboratory of slow journalism that engages with the major stories of our time—from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival—by walking alongside the populations who inhabit such headlines every day.

The object is to immerse readers in the lives of people encountered en route: the nomads, villagers, traders, farmers, and fishermen who rarely make the news.

When the trek (originally planned to take seven years) ends, the walk will have generated a global mosaic of stories, faces, sounds, and landscapes highlighting the pathways that connect us to each other—a mostly digital archive of our shared humanity at the start of a new millennium.

He was accompanied by Arati Kumar-Rao in India.

In October 2021, after a 20-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he has made it to China and is continuing the walk (he has not completed the walk within the planned 7 years).