Dana Priest
District of Columbia, United States
Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
She has been a reporter for The Washington Post for almost 30 years, covering U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon. Priest has received numerous awards, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for “The Other Walter Reed” and a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her work on CIA secret prisons and counterterrorism operations. She has authored two books, “THE MISSION: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military" and “TOP SECRET AMERICA: The Rise of the Security State.”