David Finkel

David Finkel
Born	1955
Education	University of Florida
Occupation	Reporter Writer

David Louis Finkel (born 1955) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 as a staff writer at the Washington Post.^[1] He is currently^[when?] assigned to the national staff as an enterprise reporter. He has also worked for the Post's foreign staff division. Finkel's book The Good Soldiers describes several months he spent in 2007 as an embedded reporter with 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, also known as the "2-16 Rangers", as they worked to stabilize a portion of Baghdad.^[2]

The logs of Bradley Manning's IM chats with Adrian Lamo state that David Finkel had the video which was released as Collateral Murder by Wikileaks but did not release it.^[3] David Finkel has never publicly disclosed whether he had the video or not. In a washingtonpost.com webchat, he said, "I based the account in my book The Good Soldiers on multiple sources, all unclassified. Without going into details, I'll say the best source of information was being there.[in Iraq]"^[4]

Awards

• 1995 – Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award of the Missouri School of Journalism for a story about racial and class conflict.
• 2001 – Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism International Print Prize for "Invisible Journeys" about illegal immigration.
• 2006 – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting ^[5] in 2006 for his series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen.
• 2010 – J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers.^[6]

Education

• Bachelors degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida in 1977.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/narrative/digest/resources/bios/finkel-d.html^{[dead link]}
2. ^ http://www.booktv.org/Program/10974/The+Good+Soldiers.aspx
3. ^ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/
4. ^ Finkel, David (6 April 2010). "Video shows death of 2 Reuters employees in Baghdad attack". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/06/DI2010040600750.html. 
5. ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2006-Explanatory-Reporting
6. ^ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/JAnthonyLukasPrizeProject/Winners.aspx. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 

External links

• Lecture on The Good Soldiers at the Pritzker Military Library
• [1] interview on ABC RN with Paul Barclay about The Good soldier

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