Eileen Welsome (born March 12, 1951)[1] is an American journalist and author.
[2] She was awarded the prize for her articles about the government's human radiation experiments conducted on unwilling and unknowing Americans during the Cold War.
[3] In 1999, Welsome wrote the book The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War.
[6] Welsome began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Beaumont Enterprise.
Welsome graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree.