# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-kurkjian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:58:54.736Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-kurkjian"
name: "Stephen Kurkjian"
slug: "stephen-kurkjian"
description: "Stephen A. Kurkjian is an American journalist and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1972 and 1980. Additionally, he contributed to The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. He also received the George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994. He won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 1995."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_A._Kurkjian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "ستيفن كوركجيان"
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    title: "Սթիվեն Քյուրքչյան"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump