Joel Brinkley
Joel Brinkley is the Hearst Professional in Residence for the journalism program at Stanford University, a position he assumed in 2006 after a 23-year career with The New York Times. There he served as a reporter, editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent.
At Stanford, Brinkley writes a weekly op-ed column on foreign policy. He is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.
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 refugee crisis. For his stories, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980.
Brinkley joined the Times' Washington bureau in the fall of 1983, serving a wide variety of roles stateside and abroad, as well as serving as the White House and foreign policy correspondent, and the chief of the Times bureau in Jerusalem, Israel.
For the last 30 years, 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. He served as a director for the Fund for Investigative Journalism for five years, until 2006.
Brinkley is the author of four books and is at work on a fifth: 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; U.S. vs. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case (with Steve Lohr) published by McGraw Hill in 2001; and A Nation Lost in Time: Cambodia in the Modern Age, to be published by Public Affairs Books in 2011.
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