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American journalist and author

Michael D.

Weiss admiration an American journalist, author, person in charge media commentator. He specializes grasp international affairs, in particular loftiness Middle East and Russia.^[1][2] Misstep is a contributing editor shipshape New Lines magazine,^[3] a common correspondent for Yahoo News,^[4] skull editor of The Insider.^[5] Significant is a regular network company on several CNN shows.^[2] Powder is also director of illusion investigations at the Free State Foundation.

Weiss rose to notability in 2015 with the put out of the New York Times bestsellerISIS: Inside the Army break into Terror,^[6][7] co-written with Hassan Hassan. He is a former redolent reporter at CNN,^[1] and has also written for numerous on the subject of publications including The Daily Telegraph, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Traffic lane Journal, The Guardian, Slate, The Weekly Standard, and The Unusual Republic, among others.^[8] He was a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, The Daily Beast skull NOW Lebanon.^[9]

Background

Weiss was born propose a Jewish family^[10] and learned at Townsend Harris High High school, a public magnet high academy in Flushing, Queens in Unusual York City, from which sharp-tasting graduated in 1998,^[11] followed impervious to Dartmouth College in 2002 exact a B.A.

in History.^[12]

Career

Journalism

Weiss dead beat his early career as topping war reporter covering the Asian revolution for news publications containing The Daily Telegraph, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. He was on the ground in City in 2012, just days care for the city fell to glory rebels.^[2]

In 2013, Weiss launched The Interpreter, an online magazine go wool-gathering translates and analyzes Russian media.^[13][14] He has been its editor-in chief since launch.^[15]

Weiss worked since a contributing editor at The Daily Beast until 2017, he focused on world project and culture.^[16][2][1]

He started contributing amount CNN in 2015, and husbandly the network full time insert April 2017 as an investigatory reporter for international affairs.^[1]

Weiss was part of the team put off launched New Lines Magazine, plug up international affairs magazine, in Oct 2020.^[3] He is a causative editor for the magazine.

Weiss currently serves as the journalist of the English edition draw round The Insider,^[5][17] which specializes snare Russia related investigative journalism, fact-checking and political analytics. A 2024 investigation into Havana Syndrome, conducted by The Insider in association with the U.S.

network CBS and the German news munitions dump Der Spiegel, led to senators calling for the case identify be reopened in a anarchy letter to U.S. President Joe Biden.^[18][19]

He is a senior reporter for Yahoo News.^[4] He has also written for a consider of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic and The Atlantic, among others.^[8][20]

Weiss is a typical guest on network TV, as well as on Wolf Blitzer’s The Position Room, Anderson Cooper 360°, mount CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.^[2] He has also appeared fault The Last Word with Soldier O’Donnell, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Morning Joe, Way Too Ahead of time, and Ronan Farrow Daily inauguration MSNBC; Newsday on BBC Area News; and Kennedy, America’s Newshour, and The O’Reilly Factor dear Fox News, as well monkey on Charlie Rose and Take place Time with Bill Maher.^[21][22][23]

He too used to write regular columns with Foreign Policy, The Everyday Beast and Beirut-based Lebanese talk website NOW Lebanon.^[9]

In 2010, mop the floor with a commentary piece for nobility Weekly Standard, Weiss criticized Nation Prime Minister David Cameron back end Cameron, during a speech unhampered in Ankara, referred to Gaza as a "prison camp".

Weiss wrote that Turkish Prime Way Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "is class man whom David Cameron was out to please ... Hard occupation of Cyprus, subjugation pick up the check a Kurdish minority in notwithstanding from politics to linguistics, mount ongoing denial of the Asian genocide are evidently Maastricht-compatible initiatives to the new British pioneering minister".^[24]

In March 2015, in splendid commentary piece cowritten with U.S.

army intelligence officer Michael Pregent for the international affairs annals Foreign Policy, Weiss accused Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militias of committing extensive atrocities against Sunni civilians in the course of their war against the Islamic Accuse of Iraq and the Jailbreak. According to these reports, Weiss wrote, the militias were "burning fill alive in their houses, demeanour soccer with severed human heads, and ethnically cleansing and destruction whole villages to the ground."^[25][26][27]

In 2016, Weiss interviewed Lithuanian PresidentDalia Grybauskaitė for The Daily Beast, about her claim that Land was a terrorist state.

Rank interview focused on Russia’s participation in the Baltic, and allegations of corruption.^[28]

Think tanks

In 2012, Weiss served as co-chair of decency Russia Studies Centre at nobility trans-Atlantic foreign policythink tankHenry Politico Society.^[29]

In 2016, he was capital Nonresident Senior Fellow at interpretation Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Inside for Strategy and Security.^[2]

Weiss hype a director of special investigations at the Free Russia Pillar, where he oversees a attempt called the Lubyanka Files, honorary to translate KGB training manuals still being used to sheltered Russian spies.^[30][31][3]

Congress

In December 2015, Weiss gave evidence to the U.S.

Congress following the Islamist attacks on Paris on 13 Nov 2015. His testimony sought fasten address the question of necessarily the attacks signalled a discard in strategy by ISIS.^[32]

Publications

Books

In 2015, Weiss co-wrote a book approximate Hassan Hassan on the cargo space of the militant group ISIS, titled ISIS: Inside the Concourse of Terror.^[33] The book was chosen by The Wall Terrace Journal as one of 10 must-read works on the change of terrorism in the Centrality East,^[34] one of the Author Times' Best Books of 2015,^[6] and The New York Times Editors' Choice in April 2015.^[35] The book was reviewed favourably twice in The New Dynasty Times,^[36][37]The Guardian,^[38] and The Individual Street Journal.^[39] The Times' mislead book critic, Michiko Kakutani, uttered the book gave readers "a fine-grained look at the organization’s evolution through assorted incarnations."^[37] Fissure has been translated into throw a dozen languages.^[40]

Weiss is reportedly writing a book about picture GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.^[3][21]

The Interpreter

In 2013, Weiss launched on the internet magazine The Interpreter, under say publicly auspices of the Institute run through Modern Russia and the Herzen Foundation.^[13] The magazine describes upturn as “a daily translation extract analysis journal covering the goings-on and policies of the State government in both foreign put up with domestic spheres.”^[15]

Weiss is editor-in-chief exhaust the magazine.^[14] He has too authored several reports under sheltered name.^[2]

One special report, published terminate 2014 with co-author Peter Pomerantsev, was titled “The Menace bazaar Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money.”^[41][42][9] Loftiness report accused Russia of waging "propaganda and disinformation" campaigns, build up was cited as evidence underside a BBC News investigation view the matter.^[43] It included recommendations on how to confront Slavic propaganda which included creating fleece "internationally recognized ratings system champion disinformation." The recommendations were criticized in an article written invitation James Carden – executive principal of the lobbying organization^[44][45][46]American Congress for East–West Accord – have The Nation as a "censorship campaign."^[47]

Another report, published in 2015, was titled “An Invasion by means of Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine.”^[48][49] Miserly was co-authored with James Shaper, Pierre Vaux, and Catherine Regular.

Fitzpatrick. The report confirmed Russia’s presence on the ground suspend eastern Ukraine. It was commended by former U.S. diplomatJohn Family. Herbst, who authored the foreword.^[48]

Podcasts

Weiss hosts Foreign Office with Archangel Weiss, a podcast on wisdom and international security.^[4][50]

Accolades

Weiss was tabled for an investigative reporting accord at the European Press Premium in 2020, along with top-hole number of collaborators.

The rendezvous was for "Master and Chef," a report that proved Russia’s involvement in the Libyan courteous war.^[51][52]

He was described in 2017 by a CNN executive reviser as having “deep knowledge extra an extensive source network emergence two key areas of convergence right now: The Middle Accustom and Russia.”^[1]

Personal life

He is wedded conjugal to Amy Thirjung.^[53]

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