Karen DeYoung

Karen DeYoung is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and is the associate editor for The Washington Post.

Career After graduation, DeYoung worked as a non-staff stringer in West Africa. In 1975, she joined The Washington Post. From 1977 through 1988, she worked for the foreign news operation, as bureau chief for Latin America, foreign editor, and bureau chief in London. In 1989, DeYoung was promoted to the position of national editor. From 2001 to 2003, she covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post.

DeYoung is also a member of Washington, D.C.–based think tank the Inter-American Dialogue.

She is the author of the biography Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, for which she undertook six in-depth and on-the-record interviews with Colin Powell.

Published works Books

Videos

Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, et al. (2016). The secret history of ISIS. Arlington, Virginia : PBS Distribution. Jake Tapper, Floyd Abrams, Max Cleland, et al. (2007). War stories : national security & the news. South Burlington, Vt. : Annenberg/CPB. Stephen Hess; Karen DeYoung; Joseph D Duffey (2006). Public opinion and the war on terrorism. West Lafayette, IN : National Cable Satellite Corporation.

Honors and awards

1981: Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Latin America Reporting 2000: Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Foreign Correspondence and Investigative Reporting 2009: Overseas Press Club Bob Considine Award for International Affairs reporting 2013: Finalist to the Pulitzer Prize in the National Reporting category Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Inter-American Press Association award