Joel Brinkley

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Joel Brinkley (born July 22, 1952)[1][2] is an American syndicated columnist and teaches in the journalism program at Stanford University, a position he has held since 2006 after a 23-year career with The New York Times.[3] He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and has twice been a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.[4]

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Early life and education [edit]

The son of TV news anchor David Brinkley, Joel Brinkley was born in Washington, DC.[1] In 1975 he received an A.B. degree in English and journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is married and his brother, Alan Brinkley, is a historian and former Provost at Columbia University.[5]

Career [edit]

Brinkley's career began when he worked at the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1975, Brinkley moved to the The Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government. He also covered a series of stories about the Ku Klux Klan and its leader David Duke. He moved to the Louisville Courier Journal in 1978, where he served as a reporter, special-projects writer, editor and Washington correspondent. In 1979, he traveled to Cambodia to cover the fall of the Khmer Rouge for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980. In 1983, he took a position in the Washington bureau of the The New York Times. At The New York Times, Brinkley served as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. [6][7]

"He was a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2001 to 2006."[4]

In 2006, he joined Stanford University as the Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence in the Department of Communication.

Brinkley writes a weekly op-ed column on foreign policy syndicated by Tribune Media Services. He has received more than twelve national reporting and writing awards.

Bibliography (books only) [edit]

In addition to his many newspaper articles, Brinkley has written four books by himself, was co-author of a fifth, and wrote a chapter in another (of which his brother was an editor).

  • Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land[8][9]
  • The Circus Master's Mission (fiction, 1989)[10]
  • Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television (non-fiction, 1998)[11]
  • U.S. vs. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (non-fiction, 2001, co-author with Steve Lohr)[12]
  • The Stubborn Strength of Yitzhak Shamir (non-fiction, 1989)[13]
  • Inside the Intifada[14]
  • chapter about George W. Bush in The American Presidency (non-fiction, 2004)[4][15]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Fischer, H.D. and Fischer, E.J. (1987). International Reporting 1928-1985: From the Activities of the League of Nations to present-day Global Problems. Fischer, Heinz-D.: The Pulitzer Prize Archive. Reportage Journalism. De Gruyter. p. 299. ISBN 9783110972320. "born on July 22, 1952, in Washington, D.C....son of a well-known American television journalist, David Brinkley" 
  2. ^ "Joel Brinkley." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.
  3. ^ "Joel Brinkley". Tribune Media Services. Date Modified: 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-11. 
  4. ^ a b c "Joel Brinkley". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2013-02-14. 
  5. ^ Boss-Bicak, Shira J. "Alan Brinkley: Scholar, Teacher, Author - Provost". Columbia College Today. Retrieved 5 February 2013. 
  6. ^ "Joel Brinkley". GlobalPost – International News. Retrieved 24 January 2013. 
  7. ^ "Joel Brinkley". TMS. Retrieved 5 February 2013. 
  8. ^ (2011, non-fiction)Brinkley, J. (2011). Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610390019. 
  9. ^ "Joel Brinkley". Stanford University. Retrieved 5 February 2013. 
  10. ^ Brinkley, J. (1989). The circus master's mission. Random House. ISBN 9780394575704. LCCN 88043367. 
  11. ^ Brinkley, J. (1998). Defining vision: the battle for the future of television. A Harvest book. Harcourt Brace. ISBN 9780151000876. LCCN 98017794. 
  12. ^ Brinkley, J. and Lohr, S. (2001). US v. Microsoft. {McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780071355889. LCCN 00699630. 
  13. ^ Brinkley, J. (1988). The Stubborn Strength of Yitzhak Shamir. New York Times. 
  14. ^ Brinkley, J. (1989). Inside the Intifada. New York Times. 
  15. ^ Brinkley, Alan and Dyer, David, eds. (2004). The American Presidency. {Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 9780618382736. LCCN 2003062513. 

External links [edit]

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