Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on the Iran-Contra story and uncovered Oliver North's involvement in it as a Washington-based correspondent for Newsweek.[1][2] In 1995, he established Consortium News as an online ezine dedicated to investigative journalism. From 2000 to 2004, he also worked for the financial wire service Bloomberg.[3]
Major subjects of Parry's articles and reports on Consortium News include the presidency of George W. Bush,[4] the career of Army general and Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell (with Norman Solomon),[5] the October Surprise controversy of the 1980 election,[6] the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine investigation,[7] the efforts to impeach President Clinton,[8] right-wing terrorism in Latin America,[9] the political influence of Sun Myung Moon,[10] mainstream American media imbalance,[11] United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,[12] the presidency of Barack Obama,[13] the influence of Sarah Palin,[14] efforts to rewrite history[15] as well as international stories.[16]
Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004).