W.J. Hennigan, or as he goes by Bill, will join The New York Times Opinion this month as a lead writer. He joins from Time Magazine, where he served as a national security correspondent.
The Times reports:
“In 2021, he received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense for his series on the role of the U.S. military throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year he was part of a reporting team that received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence on the Jan. 6 attack and its aftermath.”
Previously, Hennigan was at the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for more than eight years. There, he held the posts of aerospace and defense writer and Pentagon correspondent.
The Times further added:
“He has earned several awards and citations, including the Associated Press Media Editors Award for international perspective and the National Press Club’s Michael A. Dornheim Award, and he was part of a team of journalists who won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.”
Hennigan graduated from Arizona State University.
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