Washington Post's Former Video Game Reporter Wins Pulitzer for V-Tech Coverage

Major 'gratz to Jose Antonio Vargas (left) of the Washington Post, who was part of the WaPo team that recently scored a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of last year's Virginia Tech massacre.

As reported by the Mountain View Voice, Vargas used Facebook to locate a witness to the shootings on the V-Tech campus. Of the award, Vargas said:

I won this as part of a team, that's important. I didn't cure cancer... I owe my Pulitzer to Facebook reporting,

I've covered everything from video game culture to HIV and AIDS in Washington to national presidential campaigns. Sometimes I wonder if I'm way too lucky. It hasn't quite literally sunk in yet.

GP: I met Jose at E3 2006, where we talked for a while over coffee in a Starbucks a few blocks from the L.A. Convention Center. It was apparent that he had the requisites for a good reporter. Jose is personable, yet not shy about asking the tough questions. At the time, he was working on what is probably the best profile of then-ESA boss Doug Lowenstein that I've ever read. After that initial meeting, he also picked my brain (such as it is) for the occasional quote.

Well done, Jose!