Alma mater Boston University Education Boston University Spouse Diane Thompson | Role Reporter Name Mark Thompson | |
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Born c. 1953 New Haven, Connecticut, USA Occupation National security correspondent, TIME magazine Residence Kensington, Maryland, United States Children Geoffrey Thompson, Jonathan Thompson Awards Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting | ||
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Mark Thompson (born 1953) is an American investigative reporter who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism.
He reported for Time Magazine from 1994 to 2016 before retiring.
Thompson graduated from Boston University in 1975 and began his career where he grew up, at the Pendulum, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. After a spell in Pontiac, Michigan, he moved to Washington in 1979, where he joined the Washington bureau of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. There he won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service recognizing a five-part series published in March 1984. Thompson covered, or uncovered, a design flaw in Bell helicopters that went uncorrected for a decade and led to the deaths of 250 U.S. servicemen; in consequence of his work, 600 Huey helicopters were grounded and modified. He joined Knight-Ridder Newspapers in 1986, where he reported extensively on the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. invasion of Panama.
In 1994, he joined TIME magazine as national-security correspondent, focusing on the challenges facing the post-Cold War U.S. military. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, he charted the resulting profound changes in U.S. military policy, and the impact of those changes on the men and women waging the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.