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Walter Pincus
Walter Haskell Pincus (born December 24, 1932) is an American national security journalist. He reported for The Washington Post until the end of 2015. He has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and shared a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with five other Washington Post reporters, and the 2010 Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy. Since 2003, he has taught at Stanford University's Stanford in Washington program.
Pincus was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 24, 1932, the son of Jewish parents Jonas Pincus and Clare Glassman. He attended South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island
Pincus attended Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1954.[citation needed] In 2001, Pincus graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where he obtained a J.D. degree.
He served in the Counterintelligence Corps in Washington, D.C. from 1955–1957, and worked as a copy-boy for The New York Times.
Pincus served in the U.S. Army. Following his discharge, he worked at the copy desk of the Wall Street Journal's Washington edition, leaving in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In an 18-month sabbatical he took in 1962, he directed his first of two investigations for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under J. William Fulbright. The investigations into foreign government lobbying led to a revision of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In 1963, he joined The Washington Star, and in 1966 he moved to The Washington Post, where he worked until 1969. From 1969 to 1970, he directed another investigation for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, looking into U.S. military and security commitments abroad and their effect on U.S. foreign policy, which eventually led to the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War.
In 1973, Pincus tried to establish a newspaper, aiming at university towns with bad local newspapers, but without success. Believing that he would later buy the magazine, he had become executive editor of The New Republic in 1972, where he covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon and the Watergate trial.
In 1975, after he was fired from the New Republic, he went to work as consultant to NBC News and later CBS News, developing, writing or producing television segments for network evening news, magazine shows and hour documentaries, and joined The Washington Post the same year.
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Walter Pincus
Walter Haskell Pincus (born December 24, 1932) is an American national security journalist. He reported for The Washington Post until the end of 2015. He has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and shared a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with five other Washington Post reporters, and the 2010 Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy. Since 2003, he has taught at Stanford University's Stanford in Washington program.
Pincus was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 24, 1932, the son of Jewish parents Jonas Pincus and Clare Glassman. He attended South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island
Pincus attended Yale University, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1954.[citation needed] In 2001, Pincus graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where he obtained a J.D. degree.
He served in the Counterintelligence Corps in Washington, D.C. from 1955–1957, and worked as a copy-boy for The New York Times.
Pincus served in the U.S. Army. Following his discharge, he worked at the copy desk of the Wall Street Journal's Washington edition, leaving in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In an 18-month sabbatical he took in 1962, he directed his first of two investigations for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under J. William Fulbright. The investigations into foreign government lobbying led to a revision of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In 1963, he joined The Washington Star, and in 1966 he moved to The Washington Post, where he worked until 1969. From 1969 to 1970, he directed another investigation for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, looking into U.S. military and security commitments abroad and their effect on U.S. foreign policy, which eventually led to the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War.
In 1973, Pincus tried to establish a newspaper, aiming at university towns with bad local newspapers, but without success. Believing that he would later buy the magazine, he had become executive editor of The New Republic in 1972, where he covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon and the Watergate trial.
In 1975, after he was fired from the New Republic, he went to work as consultant to NBC News and later CBS News, developing, writing or producing television segments for network evening news, magazine shows and hour documentaries, and joined The Washington Post the same year.