Dana Priest

Dana Louise Priest is an American journalist, writer, and teacher. She has worked for the Washington Post for nearly 30 years, specializing in intelligence reporting and writing extensively on the U.S. 'War on terror.' Priest served as the newspaper's Pentagon correspondent and later became a full-time investigative reporter. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for her persistent and painstaking reports on secret 'black site' prisons and other controversial aspects of the government's counter-terrorism campaign. Along with her reporting partner Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille, Priest contributed to the Washington Post winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, leading to nationwide reforms by federal officials. Currently, Priest holds the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.