Philipps in 2021

David Nathaniel Philipps (born 1977) is an American journalist, a national correspondent for The New York Times and author of three non-fiction books. His work has largely focused on the human impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the people who make up the United States military. He has been awarded The Pulitzer Prize twice, most recently in 2022.

Career

David Philipps has been a military correspondent for The New York Times since 2014. Previous to that he was a reporter for The Gazette in Colorado Springs.

In 2022 Philipps was part of a team of reporters awarded The Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for a series that exposed how United States military airstrikes in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan caused thousands of civilian deaths that had never been publicly reported.

The author's 2021 book, ALPHA, examines the high-profile court martial of Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher and the history and culture of the elite SEAL commando teams that lead to what the men who served under him testified were a number of cold-blooded murders.

In 2014, Philipps was awarded the Pulitzer for national reporting for a three-day series "Other Than Honorable" in The Gazette of Colorado Springs on the treatment of injured American soldiers being discharged without military benefits.[1]

He has also been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice.

Philipps won the 2009 Livingston Award[2] for his reporting on violence in infantry troops returning from Iraq. His book, Lethal Warriors[3] chronicles how the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 12th Infantry Regiment, stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, produced a high number of murders after soldiers returned from unusually violent combat tours. Philipps worked for eight years as an enterprise reporter at the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Philipps has written extensively about wild horses in the West. His work gained attention in 2012 when U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar threatened to punch him for asking about problems in the department's wild horse program.[4] The incident was later parodied by the satirical news publication The Onion.[5] Philipps's subsequent reporting led to state and federal investigation of the wild horse program and its largest horse buyer. His 2017 book, Wild Horse Country, traces the culture and history that created modern wild horse management.

Philipps graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 and earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002.[6]

Education

Middlebury College, 2000

Columbia University School of Journalism, 2002

Notable works

ALPHA was published by Crown in 2021

References

  1. ↑ "The Gazette and reporter Dave Philipps win Pulitzer Prize".
  2. ↑ "Journalist David Philipps". Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  3. ↑ "Livingston Awards - About". Archived from the original on 2010-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
  4. ↑ "Colorado: Interior Secretary Apologizes to Reporter". The New York Times. 15 November 2012.
  5. ↑ https://www.theonion.com/secretary-of-interior-decks-smart-ass-buffalo-1819574054
  6. ↑ "Midd Alum Wins Pulitzer for National Reporting". 15 April 2014.
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