| Michael Weisskopf | |
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Weisskopf (with his son) on 19 August 2004, accepting the Fourth Estate Award from U.S. Army Public Affairs. |
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| Born | 1946 |
| Occupation | Senior correspondent for Time magazine |
| Notable credit(s) | Pulitzer Prize finalist (1996) for his coverage of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1996 |
Michael Weisskopf (born 1946)[1] is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994,[2] Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at The Washington Post.[3]
While embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq on December 10, 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the Humvee in which he was riding. Weisskopf later wrote about this event in his book 'Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57'[4]
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Weisskopf covered China for the Post from 1980 to 1985.[3]
He has written three books: Blood Brothers, about amputated American Iraq War veterans; Truth at Any Cost, co-written with investigative journalist Susan Schmidt about the Kenneth Starr investigation of the Lewinsky scandal; and .Tell Newt to Shut Up, about the 1994 Republican takeover.[3]
Weisskopf has received the George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Press Club of Atlantic City's National Headliners Award,[5] the Los Angeles Press Club's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the U.S. Army's Fourth Estate Award and the Urbino Press Award 2007 (Italy).