David D. Kirkpatrick

David D. Kirkpatrick (born 1970 in Buffalo, New York) is a reporter for The New York Times. He currently serves as its Cairo bureau chief and a Middle East correspondent.[1][2]

He earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.[3] He started in the media group at The New York Times in June 2000.

Professional career

During the United States presidential election of 2004, he was assigned to invent a "conservative beat" for the New York Times,[4] with a special focus on religious conservatives. The assignment raised eyebrows among some on the right because of the newspaper's liberal reputation and editorials.[5]

In addition to the Washington, National, and Media desks of the Times, he has written for the New York Times magazine[6] as well as New York magazine. [7] This included a series exposing plagiarism in non-fiction writing.[8]

On December 28th 2013, Kirkpatrick published a detailed account of the 2012 Benghazi attack titled: "A Deadly Mix in Benghazi." Based on extensive interviews with Libyan witnesses and American officials, the article concluded that the attack began neither as a spontaneous protest nor an Al Qaeda plot. It was a planned attack carried out by local Islamist militants, and it was inspired in part by an American-made online video ridiculing Islam.

References

  1. ↑ "David D. Kirkpatrick". muckrack. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  2. ↑ http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/k/david_d_kirkpatrick/index.html, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/world/middleeast/10youth.html?pagewanted=all
  3. ↑ "Ask a Reporter". New York Times. 30 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Kevin J. McMahon; David M. Rankin; Donald W. Beachler; John Kenneth White (1 September 2009). Winning the White House, 2008. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-0-230-10042-8.
  5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/opinion/12pubed.html?pagewanted=all
  6. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html?pagewanted=all , http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/magazine/28Evangelicals-t.html?pagewanted=all
  7. ↑ http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/2057/ , http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/47/
  8. ↑ Bill Marsh (22 March 2007). Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education. SUNY Press. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-0-7914-7038-1.


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