Joby Warrick

Joby Warrick (born August 4, 1960) is an American journalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. He began working for The Washington Post in 1996, writing about the Middle East, diplomacy and national security. He has also covered the intelligence community, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation and the environment, and served as a member of the Post’s investigative unit.

Career

The Overseas Press Club of America gave him their 2003 award for best newspaper interpretation of international affairs for his articles about proliferation threats.^[1] In September 2002, Warrick was one of the first journalists to publish reports casting doubt on the Bush administration's claims that aluminum tubes discovered in Iraq were appropriate for use in uranium centrifuges.^[2] A February, 2013 report by Warrick about ceramic ring magnets which Iran made an effort to procure was criticized by scientists for the report's assertion that the magnets were specially suited for nuclear fuel enrichment.^[3] Warrick responded that despite other possible uses for the magnets, the large number of them that Iran attempted to obtain was consistent with public declarations Iran had made to the International Atomic Energy Agency about its intent to increase its number of operating centrifuges.

Warrick is the author of "The Triple Agent", a narrative culminating in the December 30, 2009, Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan, which resulted in the murder of seven CIA employees by a suicide bomber.^[4][5][6] Warrick credits Bob Woodward for helping him structure the book's manuscript.^[7]

Prior to his work at The Washington Post, Warrick reported for The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., where he shared the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Melanie Sill and Pat Stith, for a series of articles on "the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry."^[8][9] The North Carolina native was previously an Eastern Europe correspondent for UPI and also worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Delaware County Daily Times.

On April 18, 2016, Joby Warrick was awarded his second Pulitzer for his book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS.

Personal life

An alumnus of Temple University, Warrick lives in Washington, D.C., and has two children by his wife Maryanne Jordan Warrick.

Books

• The Triple Agent. Doubleday. 2011. ISBN 978-0-385-53418-5. 
• Black Flags: the Rise of ISIS. Doubleday. 2015. ISBN 9780385538213. 

References

External links

• Washington Post biography
• Temple University notable alumni page
• Joby Warrick speaks at Foster-Foreman Conference, Penn State University, March 14, 2012 - video
• Radio interview discussing Black Flags and ISIS on Fresh Air (45 mins, 2015)

• Joby Warrick at Library of Congress Authorities, with 2 catalog records
• Appearances on C-SPAN