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.

Following his time in Japan, Drogin spent a year traveling throughout Asia, spending time in Laos; Cambodia; Thailand; Malaysia; Indonesia; Burma; Nepal; India; Pakistan; Iran, and Turkey. Following his travels, Drogin visited Europe, and then returned to the U.S., and after finishing at Oberlin, he applied to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and as an applicant for a Oberlin Shansi fellowship.

Career As a student at Oberlin College, Drogin worked for a year as the managing editor of the school newspaper, the Review. During the winter session of his senior year, he worked as an intern at the Lorain Journal. He spent January covering the police, and during the rest of the year, he worked weekend nights, 3-midnight, as a "cop reporter." In 1983, he left to join Los Angeles Times. in 2007, Drogin was awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award, by the Overseas Press Club of America, for best non-fiction book on international affairs, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors book prize, for Curveball.

Awards and recognition Drogin has won or shared numerous journalism prizes, including Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and a George Polk Award. Some of the awards are listed below.

1981 Winner, The Pulitzer Prize in Public Service, staff of the Charlotte Observer, for its series: "Brown Lung A Case of Deadly Neglect" 2001 Winner, Hal Boyle Award, Overseas Press Club, staff of the Los Angeles Times, for "Inside Al Qaeda" 2002 Finalist, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Josh Meyer, Craig Pyes, William C. Rempel, and Sebastian Rotella, for "Revealing Terrorism," Los Angeles Times 2006 Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford 2007 Winner, Overseas Press Club of America, Cornelius Ryan Award, for best non-fiction book on international affairs, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War "Jakarta Dispatch: Riady's Bank Shot," The New Republic, August 11, 1997. "The Vanishing–What happened to Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi scientists offer an explanation," The New Republic, July 21, 2003. "Friendly Fire–The White House cites the Kay report as proof that Saddam Hussein had an active WMD program that threatened the United States and the World. The truth is exactly the reverse: The Kay report demolishes President Bush's prewar WMD claims. And David Kay seems to know it." The New Republic, October 27, 2003. "Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source," Neiman Foundation at Harvard University, Neiman reports, 62, no. 1, 2008.

Books "False records cited: alarms still ring loud at 3 Mile Island," co-authored with Robert A. Rosenblatt, National Emergency Training Center, 1984. "Mad Dash for a Share of Billions in Ravaged Kuwaiti City, Businessmen Scramble for Reconstruction Contracts. Some Bring Sleeping Bags: For One Executive, the Dress Code is Still Coat, Tie and Tasseled Loafers," in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times (firm), Los Angeles Times,1991. Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, Random House, 2007.