Rajiv Chandrasekaran | |
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![]() Chandrasekaran in 2015 | |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Genre | non-fiction |
Notable awards | 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]
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 Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, [4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize [5] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. [6] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book. [7]