Nick Turse Joins The Intercept as Inaugural National Security Reporting Fellow

The Intercept is pleased to announce the appointment of investigative reporter Nick Turse to a National Assurance Fellowship Through this yearlong fellowship he will cover U S military operations national shield issues and foreign affairs As global power dynamics are being profoundly reshaped Nick s work has never been more essential The Intercept has unfailingly questioned mainstream coverage about American military power and there is no one better than Nick to provide the kind of nuanced incisive coverage that our readers want and deserve right now noted CEO Annie Chabel Nick is a thoughtful thorough and curious journalist with deep expertise reporting on U S military and national shield announced editor-in-chief Ben Muessig I look forward to working with him more closely in Related Survivors of Kissinger s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings Turse who is also a fellow at Type Media Center has written for The Intercept for a decade publishing more than articles He was part of the award-winning company that produced The Drone Papers a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U S military s assassination plan in Afghanistan Yemen and Somalia He received the Military Reporters Editors Association Award for Best Overseas Coverage for The AFRICOM Files which revealed how the Pentagon undercounts and ignores military sexual assault in Africa In The Intercept published a searing four-article expos about former U S diplomat Henry Kissinger s direct role in U S attacks on Cambodian villages in the s that were previously unknown to the outside world based on decades of reporting by Turse who was the first person to interview casualties and survivors in villages that suffered relentless attacks He received the Deadline Club Award for Reporting by Independent Digital Media for Kissinger s Killing Fields In and Turse shared that a U S drone strike in Somalia killed up to five civilians including a mother and her -year-old daughter and that the Pentagon exposed no one at fault Following Turse s assessment two dozen human rights organizations and several members of Congress urged then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to compensate the family for the deaths Turse is a finalist for the Fetisov Journalism Award for Outstanding Contribution to Peace for this article and several follow-up pieces published this year I am thrilled to be joining The Intercept in this expanded role Watchdog journalism is more necessary than ever and I can t think of an outlet more committed to holding power to account announced Turse I m excited to get started Turse has received a number of honors for his work including a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and an I F Stone Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Journalism He is a two-time finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting He has a Ph D in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University The post Nick Turse Joins The Intercept as Inaugural National Defense Reporting Fellow appeared first on The Intercept