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Shepherd to host Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Ricks Apr. 26
ISSUED: 8 April 2005
CONTACT: Valerie Owens
304/876-5465
(Shepherd to host Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Ricks Apr. 26)
Shepherdstown, WV--Shepherd University will host Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Tom Ricks on Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m. in the Cumberland Room, Student Center. Ricks will present "The War in Iraq and the War on Terror: What's Next for the U.S. Military?"
Ricks is currently on leave from the Washington Post and a visiting fellow at the international security program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is writing a history of U.S. military operations in Iraq.
Ricks has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. His recent articles include target clearance problems in the Afghan war (2001), the high morale of troops in Afghanistan (2002), the discrepancy between how a U.S. patrol in Baghdad saw itself and how Iraqis saw it (2003), and the growing strain on the military families and on the National Guard (2004).
Ricks shared in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting based on a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century. He was also a part of the Washington Post team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting about the beginning of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism.
He is the author of the book Making the Corps which won the Washington Monthly's Political Book of the Year award. His first novel A Soldier's Duty about U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan was published by Random House in June 2001, four months before the U.S. actually intervened there. This event is sponsored by the Shepherd University Picket and the Society for Professional Journalists and is free and open to the public.
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