Eileen Welsome

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.