JEREMY SCAHILL is National Security Correspondent for The Nationmagazine and is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Scahill is author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army(Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books will release Scahill’s second book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, on April 23, 2013.
He is the writer, with David Riker, and a producer of the documentary feature film, Dirty Wars, which won the Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. IFC Films releases Dirty Wars in theaters June 7 throughout the United States.
Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, appearing regularly on The Rachel Maddow Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Democracy Now!. He has also appeared on ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, BBC, al Jazeera, CNN, The NewsHour, and Bill Moyers Journal.
Scahill’s work has sparked several Congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater.
In 2013, Scahill was named one of nine recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
Scahill is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.
JEREMY SCAHILL WILL DISCUSS HIS BOOK DIRTY WARS AT THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN CLUB’S LUNCHEON FORUM ON JULY 10TH AT THE COLUMBUS ATHLETIC CLUB AND THAT EVENING THE DOCUMENTARY OF THE SAME NAME WILL PREMIER IN COLUMBUS AT THE WEXNER CENTER. BOTH VENUES WILL HAVE Q&A AND BOOK SIGNINGS. MORE TO FOLLOW…
