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American journalist
Ellen Nakashima
is an American journalist who covers national security for
The Washington Post
.
[1]
She is a 2014 and 2018 recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize
.
[2]
Education
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Nakashima received a B.A. in humanities from
University of California, Berkeley
in 1984 before completing a master's degree in International Journalism from
City University
in London.
Career
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Nakashima began her journalism career at
The Hartford Courant
and
The Quincy Patriot Ledger
, before joining
The Washington Post
as a reporter in 1995. She has since served as a
White House
reporter, South-East Asia correspondent and a privacy and technology reporter until she started covering national security in 2009.
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Awards and recognitions
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Nakashima has won a series of awards and investitures for her work at
The Post
. In 2014, she won the
Gerald Loeb Award
and the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
,
[4]
while in 2017, she was named Alumna of the Year by the Daily Californian Alumni Association.
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She reported on
Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election
and contacts between aides to President Trump and Russian officials, work which earned her and her colleagues a
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
in 2018.
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On 10 April 2024, Nakashima was among the guests invited to the
state dinner
hosted by
U.S. President
Joe Biden
in honor of
Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida
at the
White House
.
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