Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Summary

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.[1]

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Chandrasekaran in 2015
Chandrasekaran in 2015
Alma materStanford University
Genrenon-fiction
Notable awardsSamuel Johnson Prize

Life edit

He grew up mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Stanford University, where he became editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily and earned a degree in political science.[2]

At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. During 2003, the Post put his stories on the front page 138 times.[3] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[4] and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Chandrasekaran's 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize[5] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.[6] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran - The Washington Post". Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
  2. ^ About Rajiv Chandrasekaran Archived 2014-09-09 at archive.today at official site rajivc.com
  3. ^ Natalie Pompilio. Back from the Rajiv Palace, American Journalism Review, Jan. 2005
  4. ^ "Rajiv Chandrasekaran". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  5. ^ Ezard, John (19 June 2007). "Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  6. ^ Persky, Stan (2012). Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0773540477.
  7. ^ McCarthy, Todd (4 March 2010). "Review: "Green Zone"". Variety.

Bibliography edit

External links edit

  • Official page
  • Interview with The Guardian
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
    • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Chandrasekaran on Imperial Life in the Emerald City, September 24, 2006