Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Samuel Johnson Prize

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.[1]

Life

He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.[2]

At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.[3] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the

School of Advanced International Studies,[4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
.

Chandrasekaran's 2006 book

National Book Awards for non-fiction.[6] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran - The Washington Post". Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  2. ^ About Rajiv Chandrasekaran Archived 2014-09-09 at archive.today at official site rajivc.com
  3. ^ Natalie Pompilio. Back from the Rajiv Palace, American Journalism Review, Jan. 2005
  4. ^ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  5. ^ Ezard, John (19 June 2007). "Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
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  7. ^ McCarthy, Todd (4 March 2010). "Review: "Green Zone"". Variety.

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