Joel Graham Brinkley was an American syndicated columnist.
14 Facts About Joel Brinkley
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Joel Brinkley taught in the journalism program at Stanford University from 2006 until 2013, after a 23-year career with The New York Times.
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Joel Brinkley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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The son of Ann Fischer and TV news anchor David Brinkley, Joel Brinkley was born in Washington, DC in 1952.
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Joel Brinkley's brother, Alan Brinkley, was a historian and provost at Columbia University.
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In 1975, Joel Brinkley moved to The Richmond News Leader in Virginia where he covered local and regional government.
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Joel Brinkley covered a series of stories about the Ku Klux Klan and its leader David Duke.
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Joel Brinkley moved to the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1978, where he served as a reporter, special-projects writer, editor and Washington correspondent.
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Joel Brinkley was a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2001 to 2006.
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Joel Brinkley taught there until December 2013, leaving to become an adviser for the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.
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Joel Brinkley wrote a weekly op-ed column on foreign policy syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
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Joel Brinkley received "more than a dozen national reporting and writing awards".
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Joel Brinkley died at the age of 61 at a Washington, DC hospital on March 11,2014.
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Joel Brinkley is survived by his wife and two daughters.