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florida 200px american henry champ karen deyoung
 karen deyoung pulitzer prize winning editor
karen deyoung

karen deyoung is a pulitzer prize-winning american journalist , and is the associate editor for `` the washington post '' .
deyoung was born in florida and she grew up in st. petersburg , florida .
she received bachelor degrees in journalism and communications from the university of florida .
after graduation , deyoung worked as a non-staff stringer in west africa .
in 1975 she joined the `` post '' .
from 1977 through 1988 , she worked for the foreign news operation , as bureau chief for latin america , foreign editor , and bureau chief in london .
in 1989 , deyoung was promoted to the position of national editor .
from 2001 to 2003 she covered u.s. foreign policy for the `` post '' .
in the days before the 2003 invasion of iraq , deyoung and fellow post reporter dana priest filed a story with their editors that the cia had significant doubts about documents alleging an attempted uranium purchase , but the post did not publish the story until march 22 , 2003 , after the invasion had begun .
speaking about the post 's pre-war coverage , deyoung was quoted as saying , `` we are inevitably the mouthpiece for whatever administration is in power .
`` she is the author of the biography '' `` soldier : the life of colin powell '' , '' having been given six in-depth and on-the-record interviews by the book 's subject .
deyoung was married to the late henry champ , a canadian journalist based in washington dc .
