Bryan Bender

Bryan Bender (born May 18, 1972) is a former award-winning national security reporter and editor and strategic communications executive who advises clean energy, space and biotech companies, nonprofits and research universities for Strategic Marketing Innovations,[1] a Washington, DC, government affairs firm.

Not to be confused with Brian Bender.

He is former senior national correspondent[2] for POLITICO, where he authored the Morning Defense newsletter and edited POLITICO Space. He previously covered the Pentagon for The Boston Globe and Jane’s Defence Weekly. Bender has covered U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America and reported on a range of topics including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; domestic and international terrorism; veterans affairs; military training; nuclear arms control; the anti-war movement; the nexus between climate change and national security; government secrecy; and newly declassified government files on Cuba, Vietnam, and the Kennedy Administration.

He has also chronicled the aerospace and defense industries, the international arms trade, the war in Ukraine, and U.S. government efforts to research unidentified aerial phenomena,[3] or UFOs. He is author You Are Not Forgotten,[4] the story of an Iraq War veteran’s search for a missing World War II fighter pilot in the jungles of New Guinea.

Personal background

Bender is a native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He earned undergraduate degrees in Political Science and English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh.[5]

Professional background

Bender specializes in military affairs, foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and government secrecy.

In 1998, Bender was named the Washington bureau chief for Jane's Defence Weekly, a London-based magazine.

In 2007, Bender was a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation's Washington Reporting Award for an investigation into an Army cheating scandal.[6][7]

In 2011, he was a finalist for the Gerald R. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Reporting for a probe into the growing role of retired generals and admirals in defense companies and as private consultants.[8][9]

In 2013, he was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award [10]for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for an investigation of the growing role of think tanks in partisan politics.

He is also former president of Military Reporters and Editors Association, the professional association for journalists covering the U.S. military.[11][12]

His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times,[13] Los Angeles Times,[14] Jane's Defence Weekly,[15] among other publications. He is also frequent television and radio commentator on national security and foreign policy topics.[16][17][18]

References
  1. "Bryan Bender Joins SMI".
  2. https://www.politico.com/staff/bryan-bender
  3. "How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer from Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream". Politico.
  4. "Random house you are not forgotten".
  5. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Bryan/Bender
  6. "Scripps Howard Foundation: What's New". Scripps.com. 2008-03-07. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  7. "Army Knew of Cheating on Tests for Eight Years | Common Dreams". Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  8. "2011 Finalist Bios | UCLA Anderson School of Management". Archived from the original on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
  9. Bender, Bryan (26 December 2010). "From the Pentagon to the private sector". Boston.com.
  10. "Bryan Bender".
  11. "New chair of Joint Chiefs addresses MRE confab | Medill National Security Zone". Archived from the original on 2012-06-27. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  12. http://militaryreporters.org/
  13. "CIA and the Pentagon urged to assess warming's effect on security (Published 2007)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-08-29.
  14. "Archives". Los Angeles Times. 10 June 2001.
  15. "Interview: William Cohen, US Secretary of Defense, by Bryan Bender".
  16. "PoliticsNation with al Sharpton on MSNBC". NBC News.
  17. "Bryan Bender, Nat'l Defense Correspondent, Boston Globe | C-SPAN". Archived from the original on 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
  18. "U.S. Spends Billions on Iraq, Afghan Conflicts". NPR.org.
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