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Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24, 1961) is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq War and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2009, The Washington Post described him as "the premier combat journalist of his generation." He currently writes for The New Yorker.
Filkins received a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 1983, and an M.Phil. in international relations from St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1984.St Antony's College, "St Antony's College Newsletter"
He reported from The New York Times Baghdad bureau in Iraq from 2003 to 2006.
In 2006–2007, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship; in 2007–2008, he was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Filkins's book, The Forever War (2008), chronicling his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, was a New York Times best-seller. New York Times Bestsellers, Hardcover Nonfiction The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best nonfiction book of 2008, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by, among others, The New York Times, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, Time, and the Boston Globe.
Filkins joined The New Yorker in 2011.
In 2018, Filkins reported on unusual internet traffic involving a Trump Organization server and Russia's Alfa-Bank.Dexter Filkins, "Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?" The New Yorker
Filkins has won two National Magazine Awards; in 2009, for his story, "Right At the Edge," and in 2011 for "Bedrooms of the Fallen," an essay with the photographer Ashley Gilbertson. Both appeared in the New York Times Magazine.
Filkins' article "Right at the Edge" (September 7, 2008) was part of the body of work by the staff of The New York Times awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs.
In 2010, his reporting for The New York Times from Iraq and Afghanistan, alongside the work of photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter C. J. Chivers, was selected by New York University as one of the "Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade".
He has also received multiple Overseas Press Club awards.Nieman Foundation, "The Overseas Press Club honors four Niemans,"
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Career
Before joining the Times in September 2000, Filkins worked at the Miami Herald and later served as New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years.
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Awards
Filkins has received two George Polk Awards. According to Long Island University, his 2004 award recognized reporting from the November 2004 assault on Fallujah in Iraq; he shared another Polk in 2011 (with Mark Mazzetti) for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.Long Island University, "George Polk Awards for Journalism" (press release), Feb. 21, 2005. http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/Pre-2008/February/GP-Press-Release-Feb-2005WLRN, "Dexter Filkins on Iraq's War, and Election,"
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Bibliography
Books
Essays and reporting
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Categories: 1961 Births, Living People, American Male Journalists, American People Of The Iraq War, American War Correspondents, George Polk Award Recipients, International Herald Tribune People, Los Angeles Times People, Nieman Fellows, Place Of Birth Missing, The New York Times Journalists, The New Yorker Staff Writers, War Correspondents Of The Iraq War, War Correspondents Of The War In Afghanistan, Alumni Of St Antony's College, Oxford, National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
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