Helene Cooper

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Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper (born April 22, 1966 in Monrovia ) is a journalist and book author living in the USA .

Life

Helene Cooper was born in Monrovia in 1966 to a wealthy American-Liberian family. Her parents ran a guesthouse on the outskirts of Monrovia. She belongs to the Methodist Church. Family history shows direct descent from Elijah Johnson and Randolph Cooper.

With the military coup of Samuel K. Doe , the family left Liberia and fled to the USA, where Helene Cooper completed her schooling and studied journalism at the University of North Carolina (bachelor's degree). Since 1987 she worked as a reporter . With best degrees, she got a job with the Wall Street Journal , she worked in the offices of Washington, DC and Atlanta from 1992 to 1997 with a focus on trade and economics, politics, foreign policy. In 1997 she was granted citizenship of the United States. From 1997 to 1999 she was responsible for reports on the European Monetary Union in the London office , followed by more years as the capital's office manager for “International Economics”.

In January 2002, her colleague and close friend Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in the Pakistani capital Karachi and brutally murdered for political reasons. She processed this traumatic event - together with Pearl's wife - in a book. In 2004, Helene Cooper switched to the editorial office of the New York Times . She is also featured on television with the political magazine Washington Week in Review . Currently (2011) Helene Cooper is the " White House " correspondent for the New York Times and reports daily on the events in the American capital.

Works

  • In 2008, Helene Cooper published her autobiography The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood . In it she describes her childhood and youth in Liberia, the flight in spring 1980 and the first years in the USA. The book was received enthusiastically.
  • In memory of her colleague Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal , who was murdered in Karachi in 2002, she wrote his biography At home in the world: collected writings from the Wall Street Journal.

Honors

  • 2000 Raymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting
  • 2001 National Press Club's Sandy Hume Award

literature

Web links

  • Helene Cooper "The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood" - video interview and reading by the author on YOUTUBE (English, approx. 67 min)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Cooper. (No longer available online.) Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, June 18, 2004, archived from the original September 30, 2007 ; accessed on February 6, 2011 (English, short biography). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wilsoncenter.org
  2. ↑ a b Helene Cooper. NNDB (Soylent Communications), February 2010, accessed February 6, 2011 (English, short biography).
  3. ↑ Helene Cooper: Times Topics. New York Times, February 6, 2011, accessed February 6, 2011 (NYT Archives: 932 articles by Helene Cooper).
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Monrovia