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Comment: This could very well pass WP:GNG, but currently almost the entire article relies on his Washington Post bio. Also need to fix WP:DEADEND. Grahaml35 (talk) 16:46, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Lee Hockstader
Lee Hockstader (born July 19, 1959) is an American journalist who has spent four decades as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for The Washington Post. He is currently the Post’s European Affairs columnist, based in Paris.
Early life and education
A native of New York City, Hockstader earned a BA in American History at Brown University in 1982. After graduation, he worked as an intern at The Economist in London, then moved to Malaysia as a Henry Luce Scholar. He took mid-career breaks to study at Harvard University’s Russian Research Center (1992-93) and at Stanford University as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow (2008-09). In addition to English, he speaks French, Spanish, and Russian.[1]
Career
Hockstader has reported for the Post from more than 50 countries. He started on the newspaper’s D.C.-area reporting staff in 1984, and in 1989 was assigned as an international correspondent, working from bases in Central America (1989-92), Moscow (1993-97), Rome (1997-98) and Jerusalem (1998-2002). He also did a stint as a national correspondent based in Austin, Texas (2002-04).[2]
In December 2000, while assigned as chief of the Post’s Jerusalem bureau, the bureau’s car and one owned by Hockstader were doused with gasoline and set on fire at the front gate of the bureau, which also served as his home. The cars were destroyed. No suspect was identified.[3]
Hockstader joined the newspaper’s Editorial Board in 2004. His editorials covered a variety of subjects, including state and local issues in Virginia and Maryland, immigration, politics, voting rights, police accountability, the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals, and foreign affairs.[4]
He began his assignment as a columnist in Europe in 2023, writing on political, security and other matters, including the war in Ukraine.[5]
Awards and honors
Hockstader won a 2015 Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing about the senseless deaths in prison and police custody of three people, two of whom suffered from mental illness.[6] He was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials that pushed for accountability in the fatal shooting of an unarmed young man by U.S. Park Police three years earlier.[7] In 2014 Hockstader was awarded the Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for lifetime achievement.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lee Hockstader". Washington Post.
- ^ "Lee Hockstader". Washington Post.
- ^ "Two Cars Burned Outside Washington Post Bureau". Washington Post. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
- ^ "Lee Hockstader". Washington Post.
- ^ "Lee Hockstader". Washington Post.
- ^ "Announcing the 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners". Society of Professional Journalists. April 22, 2016.
- ^ "2021 Pulitzer Prizes".
- ^ "Lee Hockstader". Washington Post.