Career Highlights
- Senior Correspondent for Time Magazine
- Weisskopf was a 1996 Pullitzer Prize finalist
- Fluent in Chinese, he worked as the Washington Post correspondent in China
- Winner of the George Polk Award, Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting
- To date Weisskopf has written three books including Truth at Any Cost about the Kenneth Starr investigation of the Lewinsky scandal, and Tell Newt to Shut Up about the 1994 Republican takeover
Career Overview
Michael Weisskopf is an award-winning journalist and a senior correspondent for Time magazine. Before working for Time, he wrote for The Washington Post for 20 years and covered China for the paper for 5 years. His coverage of the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives made him a 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Weisskopf won the George Polk Award, the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, the National Headliners Award, and the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage.
Weisskopf was embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq during 2003 and lost his right when he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the vehicle in which he was riding. In his newest book Blood Brothers, Weisskopf recounts his own story of losing a hand in the war with the stories of soldiers who also spent time at Amputee Alley, Ward 57 of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
Our Interview
Michael sat down with ThinkTalk host Janell Snowden to talk about his career in journalism. He answers student questions about his time in Iraq and the differences between writing for a magazine and newspaper.
