Michael Weisskopf is a Polk Award-winning

George Polk Awards

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 journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for Time

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magazine. A Pulitzer Prize

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 finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and David Maraniss

David Maraniss

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 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

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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. Weisskopf later wrote about this event in his book 'Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57'

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

Susan Schmidt

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 about the Kenneth Starr

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 investigation of the Lewinsky scandal

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; and .Tell Newt to Shut Up, about the 1994 Republican takeover.

Weisskopf has received the George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

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, the Press Club of Atlantic City's National Headliners Award, the Los Angeles Press Club's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the U.S. Army's Fourth Estate Award and the Urbino Press Award 2007 (Italy).