John Dinges

Journalist, Author

1941 –

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Who is John Dinges?

John Dinges was special correspondent for Time, Washington Post and ABC Radio in Chile. With a group of Chilean journalists, he cofounded the Chilean magazine APSI. Since 1996 he is associate professor and director of radio at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

John Dinges’s latest book is The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents, The New Press 2003, about Operation Condor. His other books include: Assassination on Embassy Row, with Saul Landau, on Orlando Letelier's murder; Our Man in Panama; Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Radio Reporting and Production, and Independence and Integrity.

Dinges' Assassination on Embassy Row won the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime".

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Born
Dec 8, 1941
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Employment
  • Columbia University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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