David Zucchino Biography
National Correspondent
EXPERIENCE
Los Angeles Times, national correspondent, New York bureau, 2001-;
Philadelphia Inquirer, senior projects writer, 2000-01; projects editor, 1998-2000; foreign editor, 1995-98; chief of correspondents, 1990-95; Africa bureau chief, Johannesburg, 1988-90; Africa bureau chief, Nairobi, 1986-88; projects writer, 1985-86; Middle East bureau chief, Beirut, 1982-84; general assignment reporter, 1980-82.
Detroit Free Press, reporter, 1978-80.
News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), reporter and columnist, 1973-78.
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. B.A., journalism and English, 1973.
National Merit Scholar.
AWARDS
Overseas Press Club Awards, for team coverage of anti-terrorism efforts and the war in Afghanistan, 2002 and 2003.
Overseas Press Club Award, Citation (Honorable Mention), for reporting from Iraq, 2004.
Pulitzer Prize, feature writing, for "Being Black in South Africa," 1989.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for reporting from Iraq, 2003.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for dispatches from Africa, 1989.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, national reporting, for a series on the origins and impact of violence in America, 1995.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for dispatches from Lebanon's civil war, 1983.
Associated Press Managing Editors, Pennsylvania, investigative reporting, for "The Suicide Files: Death in the Military," a series that resulted in congressional action, 1993.
Society of Professional Journalists, Pennsylvania, for "Badlands," a series on the lives of drug traffickers and addicts in Philadelphia's inner city, 1992.
Overseas Press Club Award, magazine writing on international affairs, for an article on South Africa's state of emergency, 1988.
National Assn. of Black Journalists Award, international reporting, for "The New South Africa," a series on upheavals in South Africa, 1990.
American Society of Newspaper Editors, Distinguished Writing Award, for dispatches from Beirut, 1984.
BOOKS
"Myths of the Welfare Queen: A Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter's Portrait of Women on the Line," Scribner, 1997.
"Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad," Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
Los Angeles Times, national correspondent, New York bureau, 2001-;
Philadelphia Inquirer, senior projects writer, 2000-01; projects editor, 1998-2000; foreign editor, 1995-98; chief of correspondents, 1990-95; Africa bureau chief, Johannesburg, 1988-90; Africa bureau chief, Nairobi, 1986-88; projects writer, 1985-86; Middle East bureau chief, Beirut, 1982-84; general assignment reporter, 1980-82.
Detroit Free Press, reporter, 1978-80.
News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), reporter and columnist, 1973-78.
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. B.A., journalism and English, 1973.
National Merit Scholar.
AWARDS
Overseas Press Club Awards, for team coverage of anti-terrorism efforts and the war in Afghanistan, 2002 and 2003.
Overseas Press Club Award, Citation (Honorable Mention), for reporting from Iraq, 2004.
Pulitzer Prize, feature writing, for "Being Black in South Africa," 1989.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for reporting from Iraq, 2003.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for dispatches from Africa, 1989.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, national reporting, for a series on the origins and impact of violence in America, 1995.
Pulitzer Prize finalist, international reporting, for dispatches from Lebanon's civil war, 1983.
Associated Press Managing Editors, Pennsylvania, investigative reporting, for "The Suicide Files: Death in the Military," a series that resulted in congressional action, 1993.
Society of Professional Journalists, Pennsylvania, for "Badlands," a series on the lives of drug traffickers and addicts in Philadelphia's inner city, 1992.
Overseas Press Club Award, magazine writing on international affairs, for an article on South Africa's state of emergency, 1988.
National Assn. of Black Journalists Award, international reporting, for "The New South Africa," a series on upheavals in South Africa, 1990.
American Society of Newspaper Editors, Distinguished Writing Award, for dispatches from Beirut, 1984.
BOOKS
"Myths of the Welfare Queen: A Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter's Portrait of Women on the Line," Scribner, 1997.
"Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad," Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.