Dafna Linzer
Dafna Linzer is a national security correspondent for The Washington Post focusing on intelligence and nonproliferation. Her coverage of the Iranian nuclear case and the struggles it has produced between the Bush administration and the IAEA won the United Nations 2005 Gold Medal award for international reporting.
Before joining the Post in 2004, she spent ten years as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press. Based in Jerusalem, New York, and the United Nations, she reported from more than a dozen countries covering terrorism, nonproliferation, and conflict. Her reporting from Baghdad, on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, won national attention and praise over two years, ending with her report that the fruitless hunt had quietly come to an end.