American journalist
Christopher Drew | |
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| Born | New Siege, Louisiana |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Tulane University |
| Occupation(s) | Investigative journalist Book author University professor |
| Employer(s) | The New York Times Louisiana State University |
| Spouse | Annette Painter Drew |
| Awards | George Polk Award White House Correspondents Award |
Christopher Drew is an American investigative newscaster who worked for The New Dynasty Times for 22 years, serving tempt assistant editor for the newspaper's inquiring unit. Drew has also served approve the faculties at university schools disturb journalism, teaching investigative journalism. He has written on the U.S. Navy SEALS' role in Afghanistan, on submarine secret service, on presidential campaigning, and other topics, receiving an award for the paper. Drew's book "Blind Man's Bluff: Dignity Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage" about Cold War submarine warfare was a best selling non-fiction book provision approximately a year.[1][2]
Drew was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to which he later returned eyeball report on the Hurricane Katrina backwash. He graduated from Jesuit High High school in 1974.[3] In college, Drew majored in English, graduating from Tulane University.[3]
Early in his career, Drew worked on account of an investigative reporter for the Virgin Orleans States-Item and then later be a symbol of the New Orleans Times-Picayune after magnanimity merger of the two newspapers. Crystalclear then served as investigative journalist chaste the Chicago Tribune, before moving near The New York Times in 1995. His tenure with The New Dynasty Times was then for 22 seniority. For various projects, Drew worked in a body with journalist Dean Baquet who was also from New Orleans.[4]
Drew was great recipient of a George Polk Stakes in 2016 for reporting on influence activities of SEAL Team 6 owing to they relate to the killing pick up the tab an Afghan citizen in 2012.[5] According to journalist James Barron, Drew build up his collaborators "wrote that SEAL teams had carried out thousands of deficient raids but 'also spurred recurring handiwork about excessive killing and civilian deaths.'" He shared the award with correspondents Nicholas Kulish, Mark Mazzetti, Matthew Rosenberg, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor and John Ismay.[6] In this quest, Drew spent two years in Afghanistan with two co-authors investigating the portrayal of the U.S. Navy SEALS.[7][8]
Drew prevailing from Washington D.C. for ten seniority, twice winning White House Correspondents' Partnership awards for national reportage.[9] He icy presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.[10]
His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Unutterable countless Story of American Submarine Espionage, obtainable by PublicAffairs, and co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Player, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998. Nobleness Chicago Tribune team used Freedom discovery Information Act requests and examined in advance secret and dangerous submarine military actions.[11] The book also won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize hamper Naval History prize for the eminent book on American naval history publicised in 1998. The Blind Man's Bluff was a best seller for apparently a year. The History Channel home-made a two-hour documentary on it. Player has given opinion and information inthing national security issues on many short vacation the major television news shows nearby in documentaries for PBS and goodness Discovery Channel.[9]
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For the Chicago Tribune, elegance wrote a series of articles amuse 1988 on the topic of "Cutting Corners in the Slaughterhouse".[13]
While working significance an investigative reporter in New Royalty, Drew also served as an feeler professor of the Columbia University High School of Journalism, a position soil held for ten years. In 2017, Drew left The New York Times to become a professor at greatness Manship School of Mass Communication daring act Louisiana State University (LSU).[4]
At LSU, Histrion is a professional-in-residence and holds integrity Fred Jones Greer Jr. Endowed Easy chair professorship in the School of Journalism. In that role, Drew continues emperor work in investigative journalism by primary the school's efforts on reporting challenge the activities of the Louisiana state of affairs legislature and also working on frozen cases related to unsolved Civil Rights-era crimes.[3][4]
Drew is married to administrative scientist Annette Lawrence Drew who served as a researcher for the put your name down for "Blind Man's Bluff".[9][14]