American journalist
Ben Taub
Born January 9, 1991 (1991-01-09 ) (age 33) Alma mater Employer The New Yorker Awards
Ben Taub (born January 9, 1991)[ 1] [ 2] is an American journalist who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has written for the magazine about a range of subjects related to jihadism, crime, conflict, and human rights, mostly in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.[ 3]
Life
Taub attended Princeton University as an undergraduate student and graduated with an A.B. in philosophy in 2014.[ 4] In 2012, during a year off from Princeton, he was a contestant on The Voice , on CeeLo Green 's team.[ 1] Six months later, he used the stipend from appearing on the show to fund his first trip to Kilis and the Turkish-Syrian border, to learn how to be a war correspondent.[ 5] Taub's work in Kilis culminated in his 149-page long senior thesis, titled "Fools and Philosophy on the Fringe of War", completed under the supervision of Gideon Rosen .[ 6]
In 2015, he graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism .[ 7]
Awards
In 2017, Taub's work on war crimes in Syria,[ 8] which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting [ 9] and published by The New Yorker in both English and Arabic,[ 10] was short-listed for a National Magazine Award [ 11] and won the Livingston Award for International Reporting,[ 12] the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Print reporting,[ 13] and the Overseas Press Club Award for Investigative Reporting.[ 14] Taub also received the American Society of Magazine Editors Next Award for Journalists Under 30,[ 15] and was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media.[ 16]
In 2018, his work on a convergence of crises in the Sahel[ 17] won the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting[ 18] and the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change .[ 19]
In 2019, his work on Iraq's post-ISIS campaign of revenge,[ 20] which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting ,[ 21] won the National Magazine Award for Reporting[ 22] and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, making him the eighth back-to-back Polk laureate, and the first in 20 years.[ 23]
In 2020, Taub won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for the 2019 article "Guantanamo's Darkest Secret," about Mohamedou Ould Salahi , who was held at Guantanamo Bay without charge from 2002 to 2016.[ 24] [ 25]
Bibliography
Taub, Ben (June 1, 2015). "Journey to Jihad" . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker .
— (December 4, 2017). "The emergency : around Lake Chad, the world's most complex humanitarian disaster is unfolding" . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker . 93 (39): 46–57. [ a]
— (April 22, 2019). "Guantánamo's darkest secret" . The New Yorker .
— (January 20, 2020). "The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death" . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker .
— (December 21, 2020). "Murder in Malta : corruption consumed a journalist's work, then claimed her life" . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker . 96 (41): 38–49.
— (September 20, 2021). "A spy in flight : how a Syrian war criminal and double agent disappeared into the shadows of Europe". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker . 97 (29): 34–49. [ b]
— (May 23, 2022). "In search of the sublime : what the photographer Paolo Pellegrin sees in the dark" . Profiles. The New Yorker . 98 (13): 40–49. [ c]
— (September 9, 2024). "Russia's Espionage War in the Arctic" . A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker . [ d]
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Notes
^ Online version is titled "Lake Chad : the world's most complex humanitarian disaster".
^ Online version is titled "How a Syrian war criminal and double agent disappeared in Europe".
^ Online version is titled "Paolo Pellegrin 's photographic quest for the sublime".
^ Online version is titled "Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic".
References
^ a b "The Voice Inadvertently Helps Fund Journalism" . The Intelligencer—New York Magazine.
^ Lippman, Ben (January 9, 2018). "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Ben Taub, staff writer for The New Yorker" . Politico . Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
^ "Ben Taub: The New Yorker" . The New Yorker .
^ "Tiger of the Week: Journalist Ben Taub '14" . Princeton Alumni Weekly . January 21, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
^ "From the Voice to the front lines of Syria" . Matter Of Fact With Stan Grant . May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
^ Taub, Benjamin. Rosen, Gideon; Princeton University. Department of Philosophy (eds.). "Fools and Philosophy on the Fringe of War" .
^ "Ben Taub '15 M.A. Politics | School of Journalism" . journalism.columbia.edu . Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
^ "The Assad Files" . The New Yorker .
^ "Pulitzer Center: The Assad Files" . The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
^ "The Assad Files in Arabic" . The New Yorker .
^ "ASME 2017 Finalists" . American Society of Magazine Editors.[permanent dead link ]
^ "The Livingston Award Winners 2017" . Wallace House.
^ "2017 RFK Award Winners" . Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
^ "2017 OPC Awards" . The Overseas Press Club.
^ "2017 Asme Next Awards" . American Society of Magazine Editors.
^ "Forbes Profile: Ben Taub" . Forbes .
^ "Lake Chad: The World's Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster" . The New Yorker .
^ "Long Island University Announces 69th Annual George Polk Awards" . Business Insider.
^ "2018 UNCA Awards" . United Nations Correspondents Association.
^ "Iraq's Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge" . The New Yorker .
^ "Pulitzer Center: Shallow Graves" . The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
^ "Ellies 2019: Reporting" . American Society of Magazine Editors.
^ "2019 George Polk Awards" . P.R. Newswire.
^ "Ben Taub of The New Yorker" . Pulitzer Prize . May 4, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
^ "Eilperin '92, Taub '14 win Pulitzer Prizes in Explanatory Reporting, Feature Writing" . The Princetonian . Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
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