Eileen Welsome, born in 1951, is an American journalist and author. She received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1994 while a reporter for the Albuquerque Tribune for a 3-part story entitled “The Plutonium Experiment,” published beginning in November,1993. She was awarded the prize for her articles about the U.S. government’s human radiation experiments that were conducted on unknowing Americans during the Cold War. Welsome also received a George Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Gold Medal, the Heywood Broun Award, as well as awards from the National Headliners Association and the Associated Press. In 1999, Welsome wrote the book The Plutonium Files: Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. In 2000, Welsome received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and the PEN Center USA West Award in Research Nonfiction for The Plutonium Files. Welsome began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Beaumont Enterprise. She also worked for the San Antonio Light and the San Antonio Express-News before joining The Albuquerque Tribune staff in 1987. Welsome graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 with a Bachelor of Journalist degree.