What's the Story?

Thursday, April 28 at 10:30 am
 
Junior editor of The Thacher Notes Lucy M. has a follow-up conversation about life as a journalist and returning to campus as a visiting scholar with Brian Bennett CdeP 1994. Click here to watch. 

Brian is the Senior White House Correspondent for Time magazine. During two decades as a reporter, Bennett has broken major stories, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and written about intelligence, immigration and the fallout of major disasters.
 
Bennett previously reported for Los Angeles Times, writing national security, immigration and terrorism stories for the paper’s Washington bureau. He exposed a pattern of excessive force by the Border Patrol, revealed the first time a Predator drone helped police make an arrest on U.S. soil, and covered the 2015 San Bernardino attacks, the devastation from Super Storm Sandy and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
 
During an earlier stint at Time magazine, Bennett started as a reporter in Hong Kong in 2000 and reported from Pakistan and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was the magazine’s Baghdad bureau chief in 2003 and 2004, and embedded with U.S. forces during the invasion and other battles, wrote about the occupation’s reliance on private security firms and uncovered a pattern of secret executions by the Iraqi government. He became a Washington correspondent for Time in 2005, covering the FBI, DHS and the State Department, and continued to travel to Iraq on reporting trips.

He lives in Washington with his wife and son.
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