Dafna Linzer

Who is Dafna Linzer?

Dafna Linzer is a Canadian-American journalist with ProPublica, a non-profit news agency.

From 2004 to 2008, Linzer was a national security reporter for The Washington Post, covering intelligence and nonproliferation. Before joining the Post, she spent ten years as a foreign correspondent for Associated Press.

Linzer's reporting from Baghdad, on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, won national attention and praise, ending with her report that the fruitless hunt had quietly come to an end. For her coverage of the Iranian nuclear program, she received the United Nations 2005 Gold Medal award for international reporting. Dafna Linzer is the managing editor of MSNBC.com.

Linzer lives with her partner, journalist Barton Gellman, in New York City.