David Finkel

David Finkel
Born	1955
Education	University of Florida
Occupation(s)	Reporter Writer

David Louis Finkel (born 1955) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 as a staff writer at the Washington Post. He is currently assigned to the national staff as an enterprise reporter. He has also worked for the Post's foreign staff division. Finkel's book The Good Soldiers describes several months he spent in 2007 as an embedded reporter with Battalion 2-16, also known as the "2-16 Rangers", as they worked to secure part of Baghdad.

The logs of Bradley Manning's IM chats with Adrian Lamo state that David Finkel had the video which was released as Collateral Murder by Wikileaks but did not release it. David Finkel has never publicly disclosed whether he had the video or not. In a washingtonpost.com webchat, he said, "I based the account in my book The Good Soldiers on multiple sources, all unclassified. Without going into details, I'll say the best source of information was being there.[in Iraq]"

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2006 for his series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen
• Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2001 for work pertaining to Illegal Immigration
• Missouri Lifestyle award in 1995 for a story about racial and class conflict

Education

• Bachelors degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida in 1977.

External links

• PBS|NPR Forum Network Lecture - David Finkel: The Good Soldiers
• Lecture on The Good Soldiers at the Pritzker Military Library