12 Facts About Dafna Linzer

Dafna Linzer was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, based in Jerusalem.

Dafna Linzer then became a national security reporter for The Washington Post, where she covered intelligence and nonproliferation, and reported on the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In February 2008, the non-profit journalism organization ProPublica announced that Dafna Linzer would be joining the project as senior reporters.

At ProPublica, Dafna Linzer wrote the "Shades of Mercy" series on racial bias in presidential pardons.

Dafna Linzer conducted work on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under the Obama presidency, which won a 2010 Overseas Press Club Award and an honorable mention for the Silver Gavel Awards of the American Bar Association.

In 2013, Dafna Linzer joined MSNBC as managing editor of MSNBC digital.

In October 2015, Dafna Linzer was named to the newly created position of managing editor of politics for NBC News and MSNBC, dividing her time between Washington and New York.

In March 2019, Dafna Linzer was criticized in a Twitter thread by journalist Yashar Ali for what he called "inappropriate and unethical" conduct.

Ali claimed that Dafna Linzer had bullied him on behalf of the Democratic National Committee to delay a story for publication.

Dafna Linzer's partner is Barton Gellman, who is a writer and journalist.

Dafna Linzer became a naturalized US citizen in January 2011.

Dafna Linzer has noted a number of accepted answers to the US citizenship test are erroneous or incomplete.