Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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Alma mater Stanford University
Genre non-fiction
Notable awards Samuel Johnson Prize

Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Tamil: ராஜீவ் சந்திரசேகரன்) is an Indian-American journalist. He is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.

Life

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.[1]

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.[2] In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies,[3] 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[4] and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction.[5] The film Green Zone (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.[6]

References

  1. About Rajiv Chandrasekaran at official site rajivc.com
  2. Natalie Pompilio. Back from the Rajiv Palace, American Journalism Review, Jan. 2005
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Bibliography

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