Alissa Rubin

Alissa Johannsen Rubin is an American journalist who writes about war. She is of Jewish descent.www.pulitzer.org She is the bureau chief for The New York Times in Paris. In 2016, she received a Pulitzer Prize for her stories about women in Afghanistan. 

 Work 
Rubin worked for The Congressional Quarterly, The Wichita Eagle, and The American Lawyer magazine. 

In 1997, Rubin went to work at The Los Angeles Times, where she wrote about Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

In 2007, she went to work for the New York Times, where she wrote about Iraq and France.  She worked in the Baghdad bureau as a journalist, and then she became chief. In 2009, she became chief of the bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan.

 Awards 
 2016 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting 
 2016 Michael Kelly Award for reports on the treatment of women in Afghanistan 
 2015 John Chancellor Award 

 References  


 Other websites 
"Flawed Justice after a mob killed an Afghan woman", by Alissa J. Rubin.  This story about the death of Farkhunda Malikzada won her the Pulitzer Prize.
Alissa J. Rubin on Twitter

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Category:Jewish American writers
Category:Pulitzer Prize winners