Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars inIraq andAfghanistan forThe New York Times. He was a finalist for aPulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team ofTimes reporters for their dispatches fromPakistan and Afghanistan. In 2009,The Washington Post described him as "the premiercombat journalist of his generation."[1] He currently writes forThe New Yorker.[2]
Before joining theTimes in September 2000, Filkins worked at theMiami Herald and later served as New Delhi bureau chief for theLos Angeles Times for three years.
He reported fromThe New York Times'Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.
In 2018, Filkins reported on unusual internet traffic involving aTrump Organization server and Russia'sAlfa Bank.[13] Subsequent media analysis noted that FBI investigators found no substantiated link;Columbia Journalism Review later described the Alfa-Bank claims as having been debunked by investigators.[14]
Filkins has received twoGeorge Polk Awards. According toLong Island University, his 2004 award recognized reporting from the November 2004 assault on Fallujah in Iraq; he shared another Polk in 2011 (withMark Mazzetti) for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.[15][16]
Filkins has won twoNational Magazine Awards; in 2009, for his story, "Right At the Edge," and in 2011 for "Bedrooms of the Fallen," an essay with the photographerAshley Gilbertson. Both appeared in theNew York Times Magazine.
Filkins' article "Right at the Edge" (September 7, 2008) was part of the body of work by the staff ofThe New York Times awarded the 2009Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs.[17]
In 2010, his reporting forThe New York Times from Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside the work of photographerTyler Hicks and reporterC. J. Chivers, was selected byNew York University as one of the "Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade".[18]
He has also received multiple Overseas Press Club awards.[19][20]
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