#ijf18talk by James Risen. Modera Stefania Maurizi. Jim Risen è un autore di bestseller ed ex corrispondente del New York Times, Risen racconta la sua vita come giornalista di una delle più importa...
James Risen
James Risen is national security reporter for The Intercept, a bestselling author, and Visiting Professor on Press Freedom at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Risen was himself a target of the U.S. government’s crackdown on journalists and whistleblowers. He waged a seven-year battle, risking jail, after the Bush administration and later the Obama administration sought to force him to testify and reveal his confidential sources in a leak investigation. Risen never gave in, and the government finally backed down.
As a New York Times reporter, Risen won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, and he was a member of the reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for coverage of the September 11 attacks and terrorism.
Risen began his career as a reporter at the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, and later worked at the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press, and the Los Angeles Times. He joined the New York Times in 1998, where he remained until the summer of 2017.
He is the author of five books: Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War (1999), The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown With the KGB (2004), State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (2006), Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War (2014) and The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and the Kennedys - and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy (2024).
