Joby Warrick
Joby Warrick | |
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| Born | August 4, 1960 |
| Education | Temple University(BA) |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Works | Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS |
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Joby Warrick(born August 4, 1960) is an American journalist who has worked forThe Washington Postsince 1996, mostly writing about the Middle East, diplomacy, and national security. He has also written about theintelligence community,the proliferation ofweapons of mass destructionand the environment, and has also served as a member of thePost's investigation branch. His work has been recognized with twoPulitzer Prizes.
Career[edit]
Warrick was given the 2003 Bob Consadine Award for best interpretation of international affairs in a newspaper by theOverseas Press Clubof America, for his articles about proliferation threats.[1]In September 2002, Warrick was one of the first journalists to publish reports casting doubt on the Bush administration's claims that aluminum tubes discovered in Iraq were appropriate for use in uranium centrifuges.[2]
Prior to his work atThe Washington Post,Warrick reported forThe News & ObserverofRaleigh, North Carolina.The newspaper received the1996Pulitzer Prize for Public Servicefor a series of articles by Warrick, Melanie Sill and Pat Stith "on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry".[3][4]The North Carolina native was previously an Eastern Europe correspondent for UPI and also worked forThe Philadelphia Inquirerand theDelaware County Daily Times.
Warrick is the author ofThe Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA,a narrative culminating in the December 30, 2009,Camp Chapman attackin Afghanistan, which resulted in the murder of seven CIA employees by a suicide bomber.[5][6][7]Warrick creditsBob Woodwardfor helping him structure the book's manuscript.[8]
Warrick was awarded the2016Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfictionfor his bookBlack Flags: The Rise of ISISwhich recounts the characters and events behind the emergence of the Islamic State.[9]
His third book,Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the Worldis a narrative account ofSyria's chemical-weapons crisisand the effort to remove the country's chemical weapons arsenal in the middle of acivil war.
Personal life[edit]
An alumnus ofTemple University,Warrick lives in Washington, D.C., and has two children with his wife Maryanne Jordan Warrick.
Books[edit]
- The Triple Agent.Doubleday. 2011.ISBN978-0-385-53418-5.
- Black Flags: the Rise of ISIS.Doubleday. 2015.ISBN978-0-385-53821-3.
- Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World.Doubleday. 2021.ISBN978-0385544467.
References[edit]
- ^"Bob Consadine Award, 2003".Overseas Press Club Of America.RetrievedAugust 19,2012.
- ^Kurtz, Howard (August 12, 2004)."The Post on WMDs: An Inside Story".The Washington Post.RetrievedMarch 19,2013.
- ^"The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service".The Pulitzer Prizes.RetrievedAugust 11,2012.With short biography of Sill and reprints of 9 works (February 1995News Observerarticles).
- ^Prasad, Meghna (October 17, 2002)."Joby Warrick Comes Home".Temple Alumni News.RetrievedAugust 6,2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^"The Al-Qaida 'Triple Agent' Who Infiltrated The CIA".National Public Radio.July 19, 2011.RetrievedAugust 6,2012.
- ^"After Words with Joby Warrick".C-SPANBook TV. July 11, 2011.RetrievedAugust 7,2012.
- ^Rutter, John (September 3, 2011)."Hempfield grad spied a story".Lancaster Online.Archived fromthe originalon November 2, 2013.RetrievedAugust 8,2012.
- ^"Q & A with Billy Warden and Greg Behringer: Joby Warrick".Walter: Raleigh's Life & Soul.October 31, 2012. Archived fromthe originalon December 4, 2012.RetrievedMarch 3,2013.
- ^Hochman, David (April 18, 2016)."The Complete List of 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners".Forbes.RetrievedJune 16,2021.
External links[edit]
- Washington Post biography
- Temple University notable alumni page
- Joby Warrick speaks at Foster-Foreman Conference, Penn State University, March 14, 2012 - video
- Radio interviewdiscussingBlack Flagsand ISIS onFresh Air(45 mins, 2015)
- Joby WarrickatLibrary of Congress,with 2 library catalog records
- AppearancesonC-SPAN
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- 1960 births
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- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American journalists
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male journalists
- Historians of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Temple University alumni
- The Washington Post people
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners