Joel Brinkley | |
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| Born | Joel Graham Brinkley (1952-07-22)July 22, 1952 |
| Died | March 11, 2014(2014-03-11) (aged 61) Washington, D.C. |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Occupation(s) | columnist, professor |
| Relatives | David Brinkley (father) Alan Brinkley (brother) |
Joel Graham Brinkley (July 22, 1952 – March 11, 2014) was an American syndicated columnist. He taught in the journalism program atStanford University from 2006 until 2013, after a 23-year career withThe New York Times.He won thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for aPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[1]
The son of Ann Fischer and TV news anchorDavid Brinkley,[2] Joel Brinkley was born inWashington, DC in 1952.[3][4] In 1975 he received a B.A. in English and journalism from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was married and had two daughters.[5] His brother,Alan Brinkley, was a historian and provost atColumbia University.[6]
Brinkley's career began when he worked at theAssociated Press inCharlotte, North Carolina. In 1975, Brinkley moved toThe Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government. He also covered a series of stories about theKu Klux Klan and its leaderDavid Duke. He moved to the LouisvilleCourier-Journal in 1978, where he served as a reporter, special-projects writer, editor and Washington correspondent. In 1979, he traveled to Cambodia to cover the fall of theKhmer Rouge for which he won thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980. In 1983, he took a position in the Washington bureau of theNew York Times, where he worked until 2006 as a reporter, White House correspondent, foreign correspondent, editor and bureau chief.[7][8][9]
He was a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2001 to 2006.[1]
In 2006, he joinedStanford University as the Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence in the Department of Communication.[10][11] He taught there until December 2013, leaving to become an adviser for theSpecial Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.[9][12]
Brinkley wrote a weekly op-ed column on foreign policy syndicated byTribune Media Services. He received "more than a dozen national reporting and writing awards".[13]
Brinkley died at the age of 61 at aWashington, D.C. hospital on March 11, 2014. The cause was pneumonia. He had underlying leukemia.[15] He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
In addition to his many newspaper articles, Brinkley wrote four books by himself, was co-author of a fifth, and wrote a chapter in another (of which his brother was an editor).
Brinkley married Ann Fischer and they had three sons: Alan, a history professor, Joel, an editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, and John, a newspaper writer.
born on July 22, 1952, in Washington, D.C....son of a well-known American television journalist, David Brinkley
his survivors include his two daughters, Veronica and Charlotte; two brothers, Alan, a professor of American history at Columbia, and John, a writer and journalist
[...] White House correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief [...] Mr. Brinkley left The Times in 2006 to teach journalism at Stanford University, and he remained there until late last year, when he became a tactical adviser to John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
Joel Brinkley is the Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence. Brinkley joined the Department of Communication in the fall of 2006 after a 23-year career with The New York Times.
...becoming an adviser to the special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction in 2013
Brinkley, 61, died Tuesday at a hospital in Washington, his wife Sabra Chartrand confirmed Thursday. The cause of death was acute undiagnosed leukemia which led to respiratory failure from pneumonia, Chartrand said.
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