Steve Coll
| Steve Coll | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 8, 1958 - Washington, DC, U.S. |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Pulitzer Prize-winner |
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958 in Washington, D.C.) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff writer for The New Yorker, and served as managing editor of The Washington Post from 1998 to 2004. Coll was also an associate editor for The Post from late 2004 to August 2005. Coll used to maintain a blog on The New Yorker website entitled Think Tank, where he wrote primarily on issues of foreign and public policy, and American national security.
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[edit] Life
Born in Washington, DC, Coll graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1976. He moved to the west coast, attending Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1980 with majors in English and History.
He is the writer of numerous books, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Coll also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for explanatory journalism for his coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Coll's career as a journalist began at California magazine, where he eventually became a contributing editor. Coll started working for the Post as a general assignment feature writer in 1985 for the paper's Style section, quickly moving up to become a New York stationed financial correspondent in 1987. He subsequently moved to New Delhi in 1989, becoming the Post's South Asia bureau chief. From 1995-1998, he worked for the Washington Post Magazine, serving as publisher beginning in 1996.
On July 23, 2007, Coll was named to become the next director of the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C.[1]
His book The Bin Ladens was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.[2]
[edit] Criticism
Atlantic contributor David Samuels criticized Coll's "shameful attacks" on Wikileaks head Julian Assange.[3] According to Samuels, Coll "sniffed that 'the archives that WikiLeaks has published are much less significant than the Pentagon Papers were in their day' while depicting Assange as a 'self-aggrandizing control-freak'"[3] whose website 'lacks an ethical culture that is consonant with the ideals of free media.'[3]
[edit] Bibliography
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[edit] Books
- The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986) ISBN 0-689-11757-4
- The Taking of Getty Oil: The Full Story of the Most Spectacular & Catastrophic Takeover of All Time (1989) ISBN 0-04-440330-5
- Eagle on the Street (1992) ISBN 0-02-008162-6
- On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1993) ISBN 0-8129-2026-0
- Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004) ISBN 1-59420-007-6
- The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (April 2008) ISBN 978-1594201646
[edit] Articles
- Coll, Steve (10 November 2008). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: The Test". The New Yorker 84 (36): 29–30. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/11/10/081110taco_talk_coll.
- Coll, Steve (26 October 2009). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: War and Politics". The New Yorker 85 (34): 31–32. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/10/26/091026taco_talk_coll.
- Coll, Steve (11 October 2010). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: Behind Closed Doors". The New Yorker 86 (31): 35–36. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/10/11/101011taco_talk_coll.
- Coll, Steve (8 November 2010). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: Leaks". The New Yorker 86 (35): 27–28. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/11/08/101108taco_talk_coll. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
[edit] External links
- Steve Coll's page on the New America Foundation website (Publications, press releases and events)
- New America Foundation Homepage
- Steve Coll discusses Ghost Wars on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, August 2004 (three-part online audio series)
- Steve Coll interview on Ghost Wars at the Pritzker Military Library
- Hour-long interview about "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, September 15, 2008 (video, audio, and print transcript)
- Steve Coll interview on The Bin Ladens
- Steve Coll's blog: Think Tank on The New Yorker website
- Video (with mp3 available) of conversation with Coll on Bloggingheads.tv
- The Cabinet of Dr. Strangelove by Steve Coll from The New York Review of Books
[edit] References
- ^ Journalist Chosen to Lead a Public Policy Institute
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- ^ a b c Samuels, David (December 3, 2010). "The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange". The Atlantic (The Atlantic Monthly Group). http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440/. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
- 1958 births
- Living people
- American newspaper reporters and correspondents
- American newspaper editors
- American journalists
- American non-fiction crime writers
- The New Yorker people
- The New Yorker staff writers
- Espionage writers
- Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Occidental College alumni
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners
- Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
