Wa Lone is a journalist and photographer currently working for Reuters in Toronto, Canada. He has covered a range of in-depth stories in Myanmar, including land grabs by the military and the murder of prominent lawyer Ko Ni and uncovering evidence of killings by soldiers in the country’s northeast. His reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in 2017 won him and his colleagues several journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.In addition to his professional journalistic work, he co-founded the Third Story Project, a charitable foundation that produces and distributes stories to promote tolerance between Myanmar's ethnic groups. He authored two children's books on journalism and the natural environment within the Third Story Project, drawing on his rural roots.