Rod Nordland has shared a Pulitzer Prize for news, was a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting, has two George Polk awards, half a dozen Overseas Press Club awards and a score of others such plaudits. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, he was made a distinguished alumnus of the university in 2005, a position that he resigned in 2011 in protest of the football team’s child abuse scandal. He was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.