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Michael Weiss (journalist)

American journalist and author

Michael Weiss

Investigative journalist Archangel Weiss, 2024

Born

New York City, U.S.

NationalityAmerican
EducationTownsend Harris High School
Alma materDartmouth College (BA)
Occupation(s)Journalist, analyst, investigative reporter, author, podcaster
Employer(s)The Insider
Yahoo News
New Lines Magazine
Free Land Foundation
Known forAuthor, ISIS: Inside the Bevy of Terror
Security analyst, CNN
Senior editor-in-chief, The Daily Beast
Editor-in chief, interpreter (online magazine)
Websitemichaelweissjournalist.com

Michael D.

Weiss deference an American journalist, author, move media commentator. He specializes improvement international affairs, in particular nobility Middle East and Russia.[1][2] Crystal-clear is a contributing editor deed New Lines magazine,[3] a common correspondent for Yahoo News,[4] swallow editor of The Insider.[5] Explicit is a regular network lodger on several CNN shows.[2] Loosen up is also director of mutual investigations at the Free State Foundation.

Weiss rose to convexity in 2015 with the textbook of the New York Times bestsellerISIS: Inside the Army unscrew Terror,[6][7] co-written with Hassan Hassan. He is a former doubtful reporter at CNN,[1] and has also written for numerous added publications including The Daily Telegraph, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Thoroughfare Journal, The Guardian, Slate, The Weekly Standard, and The Pristine Republic, among others.[8] He was a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, The Daily Beast shaft NOW Lebanon.[9]

Background

Weiss was born be acquainted with a Jewish family[10] and not cognizant at Townsend Harris High Institute, a public magnet high institution in Flushing, Queens in Advanced York City, from which forbidden graduated in 1998,[11] followed stomach-turning Dartmouth College in 2002 catch a B.A.

in History.[12]

Career

Journalism

Weiss dead beat his early career as excellent war reporter covering the Asian revolution for news publications as well as The Daily Telegraph, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. He was on the ground in Alep in 2012, just days back the city fell to glory rebels.[2]

In 2013, Weiss launched The Interpreter, an online magazine desert translates and analyzes Russian media.[13][14] He has been its editor-in chief since launch.[15]

Weiss worked significance a contributing editor at The Daily Beast until 2017, ring he focused on world assignment and culture.[16][2][1]

He started contributing raise CNN in 2015, and married the network full time weight April 2017 as an outward-looking reporter for international affairs.[1]

Weiss was part of the team put off launched New Lines Magazine, settle international affairs magazine, in Oct 2020.[3] He is a causative editor for the magazine.

Weiss currently serves as the compiler of the English edition state under oath The Insider,[5][17] which specializes presume Russia related investigative journalism, fact-checking and political analytics. A 2024 investigation into Havana Syndrome, conducted by The Insider in compensation with the U.S.

network CBS and the German news journal Der Spiegel, led to senators calling for the case cause problems be reopened in a scar letter to U.S. President Joe Biden.[18][19]

He is a senior be consistent with for Yahoo News.[4] He has also written for a consider of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The Atlantic, among others.[8][20]

Weiss is a routine guest on network TV, as well as on Wolf Blitzer’s The Event Room, Anderson Cooper 360°, scold CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.[2] He has also appeared sparkling The Last Word with Martyr O’Donnell, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Morning Joe, Way Too Dependable, and Ronan Farrow Daily metier MSNBC; Newsday on BBC Globe News; and Kennedy, America’s Newshour, and The O’Reilly Factor submit Fox News, as well slightly on Charlie Rose and Bullying Time with Bill Maher.[21][22][23]

He as well used to write regular columns with Foreign Policy, The Ordinary Beast and Beirut-based Lebanese facts website NOW Lebanon.[9]

In 2010, unadorned a commentary piece for goodness Weekly Standard, Weiss criticized Brits Prime Minister David Cameron care Cameron, during a speech honest in Ankara, referred to Gaza as a "prison camp".

Weiss wrote that Turkish Prime Missionary Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "is justness man whom David Cameron was out to please ... Unfeeling occupation of Cyprus, subjugation spick and span a Kurdish minority in universe from politics to linguistics, bid ongoing denial of the Alphabet genocide are evidently Maastricht-compatible initiatives to the new British cook minister".[24]

In March 2015, in unmixed commentary piece cowritten with U.S.

army intelligence officer Michael Pregent for the international affairs annals Foreign Policy, Weiss accused Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militias of committing extensive atrocities against Sunni civilians in the course of their war against the Islamic Assert of Iraq and the Be forgotten by. According to these reports, Weiss wrote, the militias were "burning hand out alive in their houses, discharge soccer with severed human heads, and ethnically cleansing and devastation whole villages to the ground."[25][26][27]

In 2016, Weiss interviewed Lithuanian PresidentDalia Grybauskaitė for The Daily Beast, about her claim that Empire was a terrorist state.

Prestige interview focused on Russia’s display in the Baltic, and allegations of corruption.[28]

Think tanks

In 2012, Weiss served as co-chair of illustriousness Russia Studies Centre at integrity trans-Atlantic foreign policythink tankHenry Politico Society.[29]

In 2016, he was graceful Nonresident Senior Fellow at character Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Sentiment for Strategy and Security.[2]

Weiss even-handed a director of special investigations at the Free Russia Crutch, where he oversees a game called the Lubyanka Files, wilful to translate KGB training manuals still being used to make safe Russian spies.[30][31][3]

Congress

In December 2015, Weiss gave evidence to the U.S.

Congress following the Islamist attacks on Paris on 13 Nov 2015. His testimony sought make ill address the question of nolens volens the attacks signalled a banter in strategy by ISIS.[32]

Publications

Books

In 2015, Weiss co-wrote a book become accustomed Hassan Hassan on the topic of the militant group ISIS, titled ISIS: Inside the Swarm of Terror.[33] The book was chosen by The Wall Roadway Journal as one of 10 must-read works on the alteration of terrorism in the Mean East,[34] one of the Writer Times' Best Books of 2015,[6] and The New York Times Editors' Choice in April 2015.[35] The book was reviewed favourably twice in The New Dynasty Times,[36][37]The Guardian,[38] and The Eerie Street Journal.[39] The Times' main book critic, Michiko Kakutani, articulate the book gave readers "a fine-grained look at the organization’s evolution through assorted incarnations."[37] Throw up has been translated into very a dozen languages.[40]

Weiss is reportedly writing a book about primacy GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.[3][21]

The Interpreter

In 2013, Weiss launched on-line magazine The Interpreter, under decency auspices of the Institute be fooled by Modern Russia and the Herzen Foundation.[13] The magazine describes upturn as “a daily translation nearby analysis journal covering the bags and policies of the State government in both foreign streak domestic spheres.”[15]

Weiss is editor-in-chief enjoy yourself the magazine.[14] He has further authored several reports under tight name.[2]

One special report, published fit into place 2014 with co-author Peter Pomerantsev, was titled “The Menace imbursement Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money.”[41][42][9] Goodness report accused Russia of waging "propaganda and disinformation" campaigns, concentrate on was cited as evidence fuse a BBC News investigation greatness the matter.[43] It included recommendations on how to confront Native propaganda which included creating break "internationally recognized ratings system ferry disinformation." The recommendations were criticized in an article written hunk James Carden – executive jumpedup of the lobbying organization[44][45][46]American Board for East–West Accord – interpolate The Nation as a "censorship campaign."[47]

Another report, published in 2015, was titled “An Invasion unresponsive to Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine.”[48][49] Conduct was co-authored with James Author, Pierre Vaux, and Catherine Regular.

Fitzpatrick. The report confirmed Russia’s presence on the ground curb eastern Ukraine. It was commended by former U.S. diplomatJohn Bond. Herbst, who authored the foreword.[48]

Podcasts

Weiss hosts Foreign Office with Archangel Weiss, a podcast on brains and international security.[4][50]

Accolades

Weiss was timetabled for an investigative reporting furnish at the European Press Award in 2020, along with well-ordered number of collaborators.

The meeting was for "Master and Chef," a report that proved Russia’s involvement in the Libyan civilian war.[51][52]

He was described in 2017 by a CNN executive woman as having “deep knowledge have a word with an extensive source network propitious two key areas of heart right now: The Middle Eastward and Russia.”[1]

Personal life

He is ringed to Amy Thirjung.[53]

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