Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Steve Fainaru is leaving the Washington Post to become managing editor for news at The Bay Citizen, a non-profit, start-up news organization that until recently had been dubbed The Bay Area News Project.
It’s another blow for the Post’s foreign staff, which already lost fellow Pulitzer-winner Anthony Shadid to The New York Times six months ago.
Fainaru won the OPC Hal Boyle Award in 2007 and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Private Armies of Iraq,” a groundbreaking exposé of private
security firms in Iraq, written months before the Blackwater scandal
found guards from one of the largest security firms opening fire on
Iraqi civilians. He spoke about his book, Big Boy Rules, at an OPC book night December 1, 2008.
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