12 Facts About Will Englund

William A Englund was born on March 30,1953 and is an American journalist and author.

Will Englund has spent over four decades in the news business, most of those with The Baltimore Sun.

Will Englund completed three tours as a foreign correspondent to Russia, in Moscow.

Will Englund spent a year there, before leaving to work for The Baltimore Sun in 1977.

In 1993, during their first overseas tour, Will Englund found himself summoned and questioned by a Russian investigator, Viktor Shkarin.

Will Englund was denied, council, a US diplomat, and an interpreter for the hour-long inquiry.

In 2003, Will Englund wrote about the perspective of Islam in Russia along with the desperate situations of Chernobyl veterans in Ukraine.

That same year, Will Englund was assigned as an editor on Foreign.

Will Englund shot his own photographs and video, which he would file along with his narrative.

In December 2019, Will Englund was named as The Washington Post's new energy reporter for Business.

Will Englund was the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, with Gary Cohn, for "Shipbreakers" a series of stories on the shipbreaking industry and the health and safety hazards that salvage workers faced due to lack of training.

The series of reports by Will Englund, received The Whitman Bassow Award, 1997, from the Overseas Press Club, and the George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting in the same year.