Sharon Weinberger
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Sharon Weinberger is an American journalist and writer on defense and security issues. She is currently a Carnegie/Newhouse School
Legal Reporting Fellow where her "project will examine a legally murky intersection between ethics and fraud in military contracting". Starting in Autumn, 2009 she will be an International Reporting Project fellow at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS).
Phi Beta Kappa, and M.A.s from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
in International Affairs and from Yale University
in Russian and East European Studies.
She has also worked as a defense analyst for System Planning Corporation
(SPC), a research, electronics and computer software company working for the US DoD
, where her work focussed on such areas as arms export policy, the Department of Defense laboratory system. Together with Dov S. Zakheim she co-authored a study for the think tank
, the Center for Strategic and International Studies
entitled Toward a Fortress Europe published in 2000.
's national security blog, Danger Room. She was editor-in-chief of Defense Technology International, a monthly magazine published by the McGraw Hill Aviation Week Group. She has written on science and technology policy for periodicals such as Slate, the Financial Times
and the Washington Post Magazine. Her first book, Imaginary Weapons, describes a dispute over a weapons concept based on nuclear isomer
s.
More recently she has written for both Foreign Policy and Slate
on aspects of life in the Gaza strip
.
She is married to fellow National security journalist, Nathan Hodge with whom she co-authored A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry in which they describe visits to current and past nuclear weapons sites and meetings with some of the people involved with nuclear weapons programmes.
During the Autumn of 2008 and Spring of 2009 she took a sabbatical to become a Knight Fellow
in science journalism at MIT.
Weinberger won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
in 2011 to research and write about how the science of Facebook is changing modern warfare.
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is the communications school at Syracuse University. It has programs in print and broadcast journalism; advertising; public relations; and television and film....
Legal Reporting Fellow where her "project will examine a legally murky intersection between ethics and fraud in military contracting". Starting in Autumn, 2009 she will be an International Reporting Project fellow at the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
School of Advanced International Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
(SAIS).
Education and early career
Sharon Weinberger holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where she was elected to the prestigious honor societyHonor society
In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among peers. Numerous societies recognize various fields and circumstances. The Order of the Arrow, for example, is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America...
Phi Beta Kappa, and M.A.s from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs is one of 17 schools comprising the University of Pittsburgh. Founded in 1957 to study national and international public administration, GSPIA contains several highly ranked programs...
in International Affairs and from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in Russian and East European Studies.
She has also worked as a defense analyst for System Planning Corporation
System Planning Corporation
System Planning Corporation is a Virginia based corporation that conducts research and produces electronics and computer software for the United States Department of Defense and other federal government agencies in the support of National security....
(SPC), a research, electronics and computer software company working for the US DoD
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
, where her work focussed on such areas as arms export policy, the Department of Defense laboratory system. Together with Dov S. Zakheim she co-authored a study for the think tank
Think tank
A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...
, the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University...
entitled Toward a Fortress Europe published in 2000.
Journalist and author
She has written for WiredWired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
's national security blog, Danger Room. She was editor-in-chief of Defense Technology International, a monthly magazine published by the McGraw Hill Aviation Week Group. She has written on science and technology policy for periodicals such as Slate, the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
and the Washington Post Magazine. Her first book, Imaginary Weapons, describes a dispute over a weapons concept based on nuclear isomer
Nuclear isomer
A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atomic nucleus caused by the excitation of one or more of its nucleons . "Metastable" refers to the fact that these excited states have half-lives more than 100 to 1000 times the half-lives of the other possible excited nuclear states...
s.
More recently she has written for both Foreign Policy and Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
on aspects of life in the Gaza strip
Gaza Strip
thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...
.
She is married to fellow National security journalist, Nathan Hodge with whom she co-authored A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry in which they describe visits to current and past nuclear weapons sites and meetings with some of the people involved with nuclear weapons programmes.
During the Autumn of 2008 and Spring of 2009 she took a sabbatical to become a Knight Fellow
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism is a national program which has for 20 years offered free high-level seminars for print, broadcast and online reporters, editors and editorial writers....
in science journalism at MIT.
Weinberger won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
in 2011 to research and write about how the science of Facebook is changing modern warfare.
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