Bob Drogin

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Bob Drogin
Born (1952-03-29) March 29, 1952 (age 71)
EducationB.A., Oberlin College, M.J., Columbia School of Journalism
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
Notable credit(s) Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Cornelius Ryan Award
TitleDeputy bureau chief, Los Angeles Times, retired

Bob Drogin (29 March 1952) is an American journalist and author. He worked for the Los Angeles Times, for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the Times as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly every state in the United States. He spent eight years as a foreign correspondent, and as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg, before returning to the U.S. He covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau, from 1998 until retiring in November 2020. [1] [2]

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During his college years, he traveled throughout Asia and worked with UNICEF as a Shansi representative, of Oberlin College. He has a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Drogin has won a number of awards during his career, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and two prizes for his book, "Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War," a story of the Iraqi informant, who was a key source of false claims about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

Background and education

Drogin is a graduate of Oberlin College, class of '73, with a degree in Asian Studies. Halfway into his sophomore year, he traveled to Japan, to study for a semester as a participant in "the Experiment in International living," a family stay program. After the semester was finished, he spent time in a Zen monastery in Kyoto, for a short period, and then traveled in Japan. [3] [4]

Following his time in Japan, Drogin spent a year traveling throughout Asia, spending time in Laos; Cambodia; Thailand; Malaysia; Indonesia; Burma; Nepal; India; Pakistan; Iran, and Turkey. Following his travels, Drogin visited Europe, and then returned to the U.S., and after finishing at Oberlin, he applied to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and as an applicant for a Oberlin Shansi fellowship. [3]

Drogin was accepted for the fellowship, and returned to Indonesia, for two years, working for UNICEF, as a Shansi representative. Drogin lived in Jakarta, supporting himself on the income from the fellowship and the pay from UNICEF. After receiving training and studying the language, he traveled often, as part of the nutritional division. Upon completion of his two-year commitment, he returned to the U.S., where he was accepted into Columbia, and graduated with a master's degree in journalism. [3] [5]

Career

As a student at Oberlin College, Drogin worked for a year as the managing editor of the school newspaper, the Review. During the winter session of his senior year, he worked as an intern at the Lorain Journal . He spent January covering the police, and during the rest of the year, he worked weekend nights, 3-midnight, as a "cop reporter." [3]

After graduating from Columbia, he worked as a freelance photographer for a New York agency, Magnum Photos, where he covered a presidential election, prizefights and other events for various magazines. Drogin, decided he did not want to work as a photographer, so he took a job with The Charlotte Observer, where he remained for 2+1⁄2 years. [3]

After leaving the Observer, he returned to Cambodia with UNICEF, and served for six-months as the deputy director for Relief on the Cambodian border. This was during the time of Killing fields of Khmer. [3]

After returning to the U.S., Drogin worked for two years at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer prize, for his previous work at The Charlotte Observer. [6] In 1983, he left to join Los Angeles Times . [3]

Drogin began his work at The Los Angeles Times as a national correspondent based in New York City. [1] He traveled to nearly every state and covered the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns. He subsequently moved overseas as a foreign correspondent, serving for eight years, as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg. He reported on Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, the genocide in Rwanda, the Gulf War, and other news from countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He returned to Washington, in 1998, working as the Deputy Bureau Chief until retiring in November 2020. [3] [1] [2]

He is the author of the 2007 book, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, which describes the role of the Curveball, the Iraqi informant who was a key source for false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. [7] in 2007, Drogin was awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award, by the Overseas Press Club of America, for best non-fiction book on international affairs, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors book prize, for Curveball. [8] [9]

Awards and recognition

Drogin has won or shared numerous journalism prizes, including Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and a George Polk Award. [2] Some of the awards are listed below.

Selected works

Articles

Books

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  6. 1 2 The Pulitzer Prizes - Public Service
  7. 1 2 Drogin, Bob (2007). Curveball: spies, lies, and the con man who caused a war. New York: Random House. ISBN   978-1-4000-6583-7. OCLC   123350135.
  8. 1 2 "The Cornelius Ryan Award 2007". OPC. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  9. 1 2 "The IRE Journal" (PDF). ire.org. May–June 2008. p. 7. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
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  14. ↑ Drogin, Bob (1994-01-04). "Fads, Fashion and Foolery for 1994". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  15. ↑ Drogin, Bob (1997). "JAKARTA DISPATCH: RIADY'S BANK SHOT". The New Republic. p. 11. ISSN   0028-6583. OCLC   92032068.
  16. ↑ Drogin, Bob (2003). "The Vanishing - What happened to Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi scientists offer an explanation". The New Republic. p. 20. ISSN   0028-6583. OCLC   99028868.
  17. ↑ Drogin, Bob (2003). "Friendly Fire - The White House cites the Kay report as proof that Saddam Hussein had an active WMD program that threatened the United States and the world. The truth is exactly the reverse: The Kay report demolishes President Bush's prewar WMD claims. And David Kay seems to know it". The New Republic. p. 23. ISSN   0028-6583. OCLC   97684857.
  18. ↑ Drogin, Bob (2008). "Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source". Nieman Reports. 62 (1): 12. ISSN   0028-9817. OCLC   226015454.
  19. ↑ Drogin, Bob; Rosenblatt, Robert A (1984). False records cited: alarms still ring loud at 3 Mile Island. Emmitsburg, MD: National Emergency Training Center. OCLC   503395733.
  20. ↑ Drogin, Bob; Los Angeles Times (Firm) (1991). Mad Dash For A Share Of Billions In Ravaged Kuwait City, Businessmen Scramble For Reconstruction Contracts. Some Bring Sleeping Bags; For One Executive, the Dress Code Is Still Coat, Tie And Tasseled Loafers. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified. OCLC   41776657.
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