Ellen Nakashima | |
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 Nakashima in 2018 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) City, University of London |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Awards | Gerald Loeb Award (2014) Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2014) Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2018) |
Ellen Nakashima is an American journalist who covers national security forThe Washington Post.[1] She is a 2014 and 2018 recipient of thePulitzer Prize.[2]
Nakashima received a B.A. in humanities fromUniversity of California, Berkeley, in 1984 before completing a master's degree in International Journalism fromCity University in London.
Nakashima began her journalism career atThe Hartford Courant andThe Quincy Patriot Ledger, before joiningThe Washington Post as a reporter in 1995. She has since served as aWhite House reporter, South-East Asia correspondent and a privacy and technology reporter until she started covering national security in 2009.[3]
Nakashima has won a series of awards and investitures for her work atThe Post. In 2014, she won theGerald Loeb Award and thePulitzer Prize for Public Service,[4] while in 2017, she was named Alumna of the Year by the Daily Californian Alumni Association.[5] She reported onRussian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and contacts between aides to President Trump and Russian officials, work which earned her and her colleagues aPulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018.[1]
On 10 April 2024, Nakashima was among the guests invited to thestate dinner hosted byU.S. PresidentJoe Biden in honor ofPrime MinisterFumio Kishida at theWhite House.[6]