Alissa J. Rubin
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Alissa Johannsen Rubin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, and the Baghdad Bureau chief for The New York Times. She has spent much of her career covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Alissa Johannsen Rubin was born and raised in New York City. She attended Brown University, graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in renaissance studies.[3] She received a Mellon Fellowship to study at Columbia University, where she received her M.A. in 1986.[4]
Career
[edit]In 1997 Rubin joined the Los Angeles Times. With the paper, she covered Iraq, Afghanistan and, France, and the Balkans.[1]
In August 2007, Rubin was named deputy bureau chief in the Baghdad bureau of The New York Times. In 2009, Rubin became the chief of The Times's bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1]
Rubin was seriously injured in a helicopter crash covering the war in northern Iraq on August 16, 2014.[5] She suffered multiple fractures but was able to dictate a report of the accident. The crash killed the helicopter's pilot and injured others, including Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.[5][6]
Awards
[edit]Rubin won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for "thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties."[7]
In 2015, she won the John Chancellor Award from the Columbia Journalism School for her career of 35 years reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.[8]
Rubin won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992 writing about the reality versus politics of abortion in the 1990s.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c McPhate, Mike (April 18, 2016). "Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, reports from the Front Lines". New York Times.
- ^ "Alissa J. Rubin's Next Big Move". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ Culpepper, Anna Kramer,Sophie (2018-02-14). "Rubin '80 discusses morality, challenges of journalism". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Alissa J. Rubin - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ a b Raab, Lauren (August 12, 2014). "Fatal helicopter crash in Iraq injures New York Times journalist". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ Alissa J. Rubin (August 16, 2014). "On a Helicopter, Going Down: Inside a Lethal Crash in Iraq". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times". The Pulitzer Prizes. Columbia University. 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ Martinet, Caroline (2016). "2015 John Chancellor Award Winner". Columbia Journalism School. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Alissa Rubin". The Alicia Patterson Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Rubin's posts from "At War: Notes from the Front Lines" blog at The New York Times
- "Growing Violence Clouds Afghanistan's Future". Fresh Air. NPR. September 8, 2011. Interview with Rubin.
- Living people
- American expatriates in France
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish women writers
- American women war correspondents
- American war correspondents
- Los Angeles Times people
- The New York Times journalists
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners
- Survivors of aviation accidents or incidents
- Brown University alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- 21st-century American Jews