Joel Brinkley Writing an Op-Ed Column for MCT Wire

By: E&P Staff McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT) has added Joel Brinkley as a weekly Op-Ed contributor.

Brinkley -- who will write about international affairs, foreign policy, and national security -- is a visiting professor in journalism at Stanford University. He spent 23 years with The New York Times, where he was a reporter, editor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent.

The Washington, D.C., native began his journalism career at the Associated Press and later worked for the old Richmond (Va.) News Leader and The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky. He's also the author of three books, and served as director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2000 to 2006.

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