Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994, Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at The Washington Post. While embedded with a U.S.

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  • Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994, Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at The Washington Post. While embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq on December 10 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the Humvee in which he was riding. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Weisskopf covered China for the Post from 1980 to 1985. He has written three books: Blood Brothers, about amputated American Iraq War veterans; Truth at Any Cost, co-written with investigative journalist Susan Schmidt about the Kenneth Starr investigation of the Lewinsky scandal; and Tell Newt to Shut Up, about the 1994 Republican takeover. Weisskopf has received the George Polk Award, Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, National Headliners Award, Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism the U.S. Army's Fourth Estate Award and the Urbino Press Award 2007 (Italy).
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  • Weisskopf (with his son) on 19 August 2004, accepting the Fourth Estate Award from U.S. Army Public Affairs.
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  • Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time magazine. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994, Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at The Washington Post. While embedded with a U.S.
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