Clare Baldwin is an American journalist. As a special correspondent forReuters in the Philippines, she won aPulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018 for investigatingPhilippines PresidentRodrigo Duterte’swar on drugs since 2016.[1]
Clare Baldwin grew up inAlaska'sMatanuska-Susitna Valley. Both her parents were teachers. During high school, she did an internship at the local newspaper, theMat-Su Valley Frontiersman.[2] After graduating fromColony High School,[2] she attendedStanford University, where she majored in English and minored inhuman biology.[3] Baldwin graduated from Stanford in 2005.[3]
Before joining Reuters in 2009, Baldwin wrote articles forWired magazine[4] and various regional newspapers.[1] She then worked for Reuters’San Francisco andNew York offices, covering law, business and technology.[3]
In 2018, Baldwin was part of the three-person team that won thePulitzer for a series of articles that exposed a campaign of deadly violence by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.[1]The Philippine Drug War is the severe anti-drug movement politicized by Duterte, who assumed office on June 30, 2016. Baldwin helped to expose Duterte’s demands for police and the public to kill criminals and drug addicts.[5] Since Duterte assumed office, more than 7,000[6] people have been killed in what the Philippine National Police (PNP) deemed “lawful anti-drug operations.”[7] Baldwin and her colleagues’ reporting also revealed the bias of the PNP in its tendency to murder “poor people” and suspected drug users, not drug dealers.[6] Baldwin’s coverage of the phenomenon was strengthened by Reuter’s obtainment of video footage[8] and PNP public records. Baldwin spent months visiting police stations throughout Manila in order to obtain these records. After securing data on two major Phillipian cities, Baldwin analyzed the data to reveal systematic patterns of Duterte’s war on drugs, ultimately leading to the investigation that won her a Pulitzer.[9] Additionally, Baldwin’s coverage was particularly significant because of the historical role of journalists in the Philippines. The Philippines is currently the second most dangerous country in the world for reporters, and in the past two decades, 65 journalists have been murdered there and convictions have been obtained in just five cases.[10]
In 2019, she was part of the Reuters staff awarded the Pulitzer[11] for a series of articles exposing the military units responsible for the expulsion and murder ofRohingaMuslims fromMyanmar.
In 2021, Baldwin reported on agene sequencing company usingprenatal tests sold globally to collectgenetic data from millions of women.[12] Baldwin and her co-author, Kirsty Needham, reported thatBGI Group, the Chinese gene sequencing company collaborated withChina’s military when developing the prenatal tests.[12] The Reuters review found that since 2010, BGI Group published numerous joint studies on the prenatal tests with the People’s Liberation Army, researching and improving the tests or analysing the test data.[13]
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