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Revision as of 10:19, 20 June 2007 by 68.33.206.74 (talk) (→Professional career)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Murray S. Waas (born ca. 1959) is an American freelance investigative journalist noted most recently for his coverage of the White House planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensuing controversies such as the CIA leak scandal (2003). His recent articles have appeared in The American Prospect, The National Journal, and Salon. He also comments on such contemporary American political controversies in his blog Whatever Already!
His "instant book" on United States v. Libby, entitled The United States v. I. Lewis Libby ("Edited with Reporting by Murray Waas"), was published by Sterling Publishing's Union Square Press imprint on 5 June 2007. (Murray was assisted in his research by Jeff Lomonaco, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota.)
Personal history
Waas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and originally hoped to pursue a career in local politics, but he dropped out of George Washington University before graduating. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Professional career
While still attending college, he began working for Jack Anderson. Waas's journalistic work has been published in a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. He reported on the Whitewater and Clinton impeachment for Salon.com." While still in his twenties, he was a staff writer and investigative correspondent for the Village Voice. During the Reagan administration, he became known for being one of a small number of reporters to have written earliest about the so-called Iran-contra affair.
In 1993, while a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing the first Bush administration's prewar foreign policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. That same year, he was also a winner of Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The previous year, 1992, he had been a fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation, during which time he investigated substandard conditions and questionable deaths at institutions for the mentally retarded, mental hospitals, nursing homes, jails, prisons, and other publicly run facilities.
His reporting on the George W. Bush administration, especially the CIA leak scandal (2003), has been called "groundbreaking" by New York University journalism Professor Jay Rosen, who considers Waas the "new Bob Woodward".
In the May 15, 2006 interview with Halloran, when she asked whether he was "working on stories other than those involving the Fitzgerald investigation," Waas indicated that he has "been working on a long, explanatory piece about healthcare issues, the cervical cancer vaccine."
Main article: CervarixAmong the questions that he raised with Halloran are: "Why isn't that vaccine going to get to the people it should get to? Is it going to be locked away?"
In the same interview published on May 15, 2006, when Halloran asked the subject of his "next story," he identified it as "another story about the level of knowledge among high-level administration officials about attempts to discredit Wilson and when they knew about it." Several of his later publications concern that story, which is related to his recently published book, written with Jeff Lomonaco, The United States v. I. Lewis Libby. His co-author, Lomanoco, is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, who earlier had earned a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1999, according to Lomanaco's biography, as contained in the book.
Notes
- Press release, Sterling Publishing, March 6, 2007, downloadable document file from publisher's "press room" (miscoded filename as PDF; it is a DOC file: US_v_ILewisLibby_Release.doc"); see catalogue description; both accessed June 18, 2007.
- ^ Liz Halloran, "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun", interview with Murray Waas, U.S. News and World Report 15 May, 2006, accessed 29 April, 2007.
- Rosen, Jay (April 9, 2006). "Murray Waas is Our Woodward Now". PressThink (blog). Retrieved 2006-08-18.
References
- Goodman, Amy, "Ex-Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial". Interview with Murray Waas and Marcy Wheeler. Democracy Now! 7 March, 2007. Accessed 29 April, 2007.
- Halloran, Liz. "A Muckraker's Day in the Sun". U.S. News and World Report 15 May, 2006. Accessed 29 April, 2007.
- Kurtz, Howard. "The Lone Ranger: After a Quarter Century in the Journalistic Shadows, Murray Waas Is Getting His Day in the Sun." The Washington Post, 17 April 2006.
- Rosen, Jay. "Murray Waas Is Our Woodward Now". PressThink (blog), April 9, 2006. Accessed 29 April,
- Waas, Murray. "A Reporter's Bias". The Huffington Post, June 25, 2006.
- –––, ed. The United States v. I. Lewis Libby. New York: Union Square Press (imprint of Sterling Publishing), 2007. ISBN 1402752598 (10). ISBN 978-1402752599 (13). (Ed. with reporting by Murray Waas and research assistance by Jeff Lomonaco.)
External links
- American Prospect story index (2001-2005)
- National Journal story index (2005-2007)
- Salon.com story index (2006)
- Whatever Already! Murray Waas's blog
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