Jackson Diehl

Jackson Diehl (born 1956) is a newspaper editor and reporter. He was the deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post from February 2001 to August 2021. He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He wrote many of the paper's editorials on foreign affairs, helped to oversee the editorial and op-ed pages and authored a regular column. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and can speak Spanish and Polish.

Diehl was born in San Antonio, Texas. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1978. Diehl had advocated for democratic reforms and a tougher U.S. policy toward Egypt, criticizing Barack Obama for his "dangerous passivity," and in 2011 he was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, for his commentary on Egypt.

In October 2011, Diehl, in his opinion column, Obama's policy on Venezuela leaves Chavez's victims paying price, criticized the Obama administration over their foot-dragging, in granting asylum for Nelson Mezerhane. Mezerhane, who had been threatened by Chavez, to stifle Globolvision's network coverage criticizing Chavez, had fled Venezuela, after he and his family faced threats to their lives. Diehl noted in his column, that asylum decisions should be nonpolitical, but under Hillary Clinton's State Department, a strategy of avoiding "scrapes" with Chavez, left people like Mezerhane danger. In his column he wrote:

Diehl was also critical of the Trump administration's handling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying of Trump's foreign policy, in his column in January 2020:

2012 Syria coverage Diehl was nominated for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing; in the cover letter, nominating Jackson Diehl for the Prize, Fred Hiatt wrote:

The series of editorial columns, that resulted in Diehl becoming a finalist for the prize, are listed below. An unworkable plan for Syria, March 23, 2012 Needed: Plan B for Syria, April 22, 2012 The U.N.'s monitors of death, April 26, 2012 Who will stop Syria's massacres?, May 30, 2012 Scapegoat for Syria, July 1, 2012 Syria's hard core, August 9, 2012 Impotent on Syria, December 31, 2012

Awards and recognition During his career, Diehl has received multiple awards as listed below.

1984 Inter-American Press Association Award for Interpretive Journalism, for his coverage of South America 2011 Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, for his commentary on Egypt 2013 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize finalist, for editorials about Syria. 2018 The Eugene Meyer and Ben Bradlee Award, for extraordinary journalism 2019 Journalist of the Year Award by the Algemeiner Foundation 2021 Diehl is a recipient of the Washington DC based Transatlantic Leadership Network 2021 "Freedom of the Media" Gold Medal award for Public Service 2022 He was part of the team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service