Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

David Ignatius

Columnist to discuss why press
failed on 9/11 and Iraq

David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist at The Washington Post, will present a talk on "Why the Press Failed on 9/11 and Iraq" during his visit to campus on Monday, April 26, as the next Poynter Fellow in Journalism.

His talk will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Ignatius will also be the guest at a master's tea at 2:30 p.m. that day at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. Both events are free and open to the public.

Ignatius joined The Washington Post in January 1986 after spending 10 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). He started with the WSJ in Pittsburgh, where he covered the United Steelworkers Union and the steel industry; he then moved to Washington, where he covered the Justice Department and the CIA and, briefly, the U.S. Senate. He was subsequently sent overseas as the WSJ Middle East correspondent, returning to Washington as chief diplomatic correspondent. While serving in this last job in 1985, Ignatius won the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.

He came to The Washington Post as editor of the Sunday Outlook section, serving for four years, and became foreign editor in June of 1990, just before Iraq invaded Kuwait. He was named assistant managing editor of the Business section in January of 1993.

Ignatius has also written extensively for magazines and is the author of five novels: "Agents of Innocence," "SIRO," "The Bank of Fear," "A Firing Offense" and "The Sun King."

Established by the late Nelson Poynter '27 M.A., the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism brings to the Yale campus distinguished reporters, editors and others who have made important contributions to the media.

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