17 Facts About Walter Pincus

Walter Haskell Pincus was born on December 24,1932 and is an American national security journalist.

Walter Pincus reported for The Washington Post until the end of 2015.

Walter Pincus has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and shared a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with five other Washington Post reporters, and the 2010 Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy.

Walter Pincus attended South Side High School, Rockville Centre, New York and graduated from Yale University with a B A in 1954.

Walter Pincus attended Georgetown University Law Center, graduating in 2001 with a Juris Doctor degree.

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In 1973 Walter Pincus tried to establish a newspaper, aiming at university towns with bad local newspapers, but without success.

Walter Pincus has written about a variety of news subjects ranging from nuclear weapons and arms control to political campaigns to the American hostages in Iran to investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch.

Walter Pincus covered the intelligence community and its problems arising out of the case of confessed spy Aldrich Ames, allegations of Chinese espionage at the nuclear weapons laboratories.

Walter Pincus attended Georgetown Law School part-time beginning in 1995 and graduated in 2001, at the age of sixty-eight.

Walter Pincus has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University and since 2002 has taught a seminar at Stanford University's Stanford-in-Washington program.

In October 2003, Walter Pincus cowrote a story for The Washington Post which described a July 12,2003 conversation between an unnamed administration official and an unnamed Washington Post reporter.

On February 12,2007, Walter Pincus testified in court that it was then White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, swerving off topic during an interview, who had told him of Plame's identity.

Walter Pincus was interviewed about his involvement in the Plame affair, and his refusal to identify his source, in the first episode of Frontline's "News War".

Walter Pincus has been criticised by other journalists, including colleagues at the Washington Post, for factual inaccuracies in his reporting and in particular for failing to adequately address inaccuracies, even in cases where he has seemingly acknowledged the errors himself.

In July 2013 Walter Pincus wrote a highly speculative article about National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden prompting Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald to write an open letter to Walter Pincus regarding what he described as "blatant, easily demonstrated falsehoods" including:.

When unionized Washington Post reporters in The Newspaper Guild withheld bylines to protest a company contract offer, Walter Pincus refused to join his fellow reporters and allowed his byline to be published.

Walter Pincus has won several newspaper prizes including the 1961 Page One award for magazine reporting in The Reporter, the George Polk Award in 1977 for stories in The Washington Post exposing the neutron warhead, a television Emmy for writing on the 1981 CBS News documentary series, "Defense of the United States", and in 1999 he was awarded the first Stewart Alsop Award given by the Association of Foreign Intelligence Officers for his coverage of national security affairs.