R. Jeffrey Smith is a reporter at the Washington Post and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

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 in 2006.

Smith was a senior writer from 1977 to 1986 for Science magazine

Science Magazine

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 and he won two Science in Society Journalism Awards during that period. Afterward, his career has developed at the Washington Post. From 1986 to 1998, he was a national security correspondent and, after that, he has been the Post's southern Europe bureau chief.

Smith has an B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy Studies from Duke University

Duke University

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 and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University

Columbia University

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. He was journalist-in-residence at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in 2002. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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 and the International Institute for Strategic Studies

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.

Smith authored an article on the Srebrenica massacre

Srebrenica massacre

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 on Encyclopædia Britannica

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. He also sat for an interview on the subject for the Encyclopædia.

Contact

• E-mail R. Jeffrey Smith at the Washington Post