Christopher Drew (journalist)

Christopher Drew is an American investigative reporter for The New York Times . He has written on the U.S. Navy SEALS' role in Afghanistan, on submarine espionage, on presidential campaigning, and other topics.

Christopher Drew
Born
New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation(s)journalist, author
Notable creditThe New York Times

Career

Drew was a recipient of a George Polk Award in 2016 for reporting on the SEALS' SEAL Team 6 and on the killing of an Afghan in 2012. According to James Barron, the journalists "wrote that SEAL teams had carried out thousands of dangerous raids but “also spurred recurring concerns about excessive killing and civilian deaths.”" He shared the award with journalists Nicholas Kulish, Mark Mazzetti, Matthew Rosenberg, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor and John Ismay.[1] He spent two years in Afghanistan with two co-authors investigating the role of U.S. Navy SEALS.[2][3]

Drew reported from Washington D.C. for ten years, twice winning White House Correspondents' Association awards for national reportage.[4] He covered presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.[5]

His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, published by PublicAffairs, and co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Drew, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998. The Chicago Tribune team used Freedom of Information Act requests and examined formerly secret and dangerous submarine military actions.[6] The book also won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History prize for the best book on American naval history published in 1998. The Blind Man's Bluff was a best seller for almost a year. The History Channel based a two-hour documentary on it. Drew has given opinion and information on national security issues on many of the major television news shows and in documentaries for PBS and the Discovery Channel.[4]

In 1996, he covered the Odwalla E. coli outbreak, finding that the Odwalla firm had relaxed its quality standards for incoming fruit and curbed the authority of its own safety program[7]

For the Chicago Tribune, he wrote a series of articles in 1988 on the topic of "Cutting Corners in the Slaughterhouse".[8]

Personal life and education

His hometown is New Orleans, Louisiana, to which he later returned to report on the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. He graduated from Tulane University. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[4]

References
  1. James Barron (February 14, 2016). "New York Times Journalists Among Winners of 2015 Polk Awards". The New York Times.
  2. Matthew Rosenberg (December 17, 2015). "Reporting in a War Zone: Inside the Navy SEALs Story". The New York Times.
  3. Roisin Davis (December 21, 2015). "Truthdiggers of the Week: Those Who Uncovered Navy SEAL Abuse of Prisoners in Afghanistan". TruthDig.
  4. "Christopher Drew". Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.
  5. Katia Bachko (July 23, 2008). "Talking Shop: Chris Drew: New York Times reporter on covering Obama off the trail". Columbia Journalism Review.
  6. "1998 IRE Awards". Investigative Reporters and Editors. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  7. Christopher Drew and Pam Belluck (January 4, 1988). "Deadly Bacteria a New Threat To Fruit and Produce in U.S." The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  8. David L. Protess, ed. (1991). The Journalism of Outrage: Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America. The Guilford Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780898625912.
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