Mark Mazzetti
Mark Mazzetti (born May 13, 1974 in Washington, DC , USA ) is an American journalist .
Life
Mazzetti attended a Jesuit high school in New York City before studying politics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina . He completed his studies there with a bachelor's degree . He received his master's degree in history from Oxford University in England . After graduating from Oxford he reported for the British business journal The Economist until 2000 from Washington DC and Austin , Texas .
2001 Mazzetti began as a correspondent for the Pentagon for the magazine US News and World Report with a focus on defense and national security. In 2004 he moved to the Los Angeles Times and continued to work with the Pentagon. In 2003 he spent two months as an embedded journalist with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq and as a reporter in Baghdad .
Since 2006, Mazzetti has written dozens of articles in the New York Times , sometimes together with colleagues from the house, about the trouble spots of this world that he had visited. These include Iraq, Puntland in Somalia , the Middle East and Afghanistan . He also examined the working methods and tactics of the CIA , allegations against units of the US Army in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In 2011 Mazzetti and his colleagues were one of the few people who were able to read the Afghan War Diary on July 25, 2011 before it was published on the Internet. See publication of the war diary of the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks .
Mazzetti's first book about the CIA was published in 2013 and also published in German. He lives with his family in Washington, DC
honors and awards
- 2006: Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense .
- 2008: Livingston Award for National Reporting for his exposé on the disappearance of incriminating material from interrogations of Al-Qaeda members.
- 2009: Pulitzer Prize for International Coverage for himself and three other colleagues from the New York Times.
Publications
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth , Penguin Press, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-59420-480-7 .
- German by Helmut Dierlamm and Thomas Pfeiffer : Killing Business. The CIA's Secret War . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-1174-9 ; as an e-book: ISBN 978-3-8270-7687-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The list of enemies of the state is getting longer and longer in FAZ from October 5, 2013, page L26
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazzetti, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC , USA |