Bob Drogin

Bob Drogin (born March 29, 1952) is an American journalist and author. He worked for the ''Los Angeles Times,'' for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the ''Times'' as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly every state in the United States. He spent eight years as a foreign correspondent, and as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg, before returning to the U.S. He covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau, from 1998 until retiring in November 2020.

During his college years, he traveled throughout Asia and worked with UNICEF as a Shansi representative, of Oberlin College. He has a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Drogin has won a number of awards during his career, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and two prizes for his book, "Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War," a story of the Iraqi informant, who was a key source of false claims about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Provided by Wikipedia