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Joel Brinkley is the Lorey I. Lokey professor of journalism at
Stanford University, a position he assumed in 2006 after a 35-year career with The
New York Times. There he served as a reporter, editor and Pulitzer Prize winning
foreign correspondent.
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At Stanford, Mr. Brinkley writes a weekly op-ed column on foreign
policy that appears in more than 50 newspapers and Web sites around the world. He
is a native of Washington D.C. and a graduate of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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Mr. Brinkley began his career with the Associated Press in Charlotte,
N.C., in 1975 and then moved to the Richmond (Va.) News Leader, where he covered
local and regional governments for three years. In 1977 he wrote a national series
about the Ku Klux Klan and a new, little-known leader who seemed to be reviving
it, named David Duke.
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In 1978, he joined the staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
where he served as a reporter, special projects writer and city editor. In the fall
of 1979 he traveled to Cambodia to cover the fall of the Pol Pot regime and the
resulting refuge crisis. For his stories, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International
Reporting in 1980. Twice in the following years he was a finalist for a Pulitzer
Prize in investigative reporting.
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After joining the Times’ Washington bureau in the fall of 1983,
Mr. Brinkley was sent to Beirut to cover the marine-barracks bombing that killed
241 marines. In the following few years he covered the CIA and other intelligence
agencies, international drug trafficking and the contra war in Nicaragua, among
other issues. He was the first to write, in 1985, that Oliver North was directing
the Contra war.
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Mr. Brinkley served as editor of the paper’s Iran-contra coverage
in 1986 and was appointed White House correspondent late that year. In 1988 he was
named chief of the Times bureau in Jerusalem, Israel, where he served for four years
-- through the first Palestinian uprising and the first Gulf War.
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In 1991 he was named enterprise editor in the Washington bureau
and supervised numerous projects and investigations. In 1995 he moved to New York
where he served as political editor for three years. In 1998 he moved to the Business
Desk to cover business and technology issues and then moved back to Washington to
cover the two-year anti-trust trial against the Microsoft Corp.
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From 2000 through 2004 he held a variety of reporting and editing
positions, including national security editor in the Washington bureau following
the Sept. 11 attacks and Washington bureau foreign editor. He also took on several
extended foreign reporting assignments – in Thailand in 2001, Israel in 2002, Saudi
Arabia in 2004. For several months in late 2003 he served as political writer in
Baghdad. He also wrote frequently for the Times’ Sunday magazine, including five
cover stories. He was a foreign policy-correspondent from 2004 to the summer of
2006, when he left the paper. |
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Over the last 30 years, Mr. Brinkley has worked in 46 states and
more than 50 foreign countries. He has won more than a dozen national reporting
and writing awards, including a George Polk Award for national reporting in 1995.
He served as a director for the Fund for Investigative Journalism for five years,
until 2006.
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Mr. Brinkley is the author of three books and is at work on a fourth:
The Circus Master's Mission, a novel published by Random House in 1989; Defining
Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television, published by Harcourt Brace in
1998; and U.S. vs. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (with Steve
Lohr) published by McGraw Hill in 2001. He is under contract with Public Affairs
books to write a book on modern-day Cambodia. |