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Meet the journalist ty mccormick
Ty McCormick is an award-winning American foreign correspondent and magazine editor. He has been the Africa editor at Foreign Policy magazine since August 2015. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, New Republic, and National Geographic.
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Career
He began his career as a freelance Cairo correspondent, covering the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath. He joined Foreign Policy as an editor in 2012 and was appointed Africa editor in 2015. He has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He was the recipient of the 2016 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Bronze Prize from the U.N. Correspondents Association. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Kurt Schork Memorial Award for his reporting on the civil war in South Sudan. He was long-listed for One World Media Awards in two different categories in 2015.
He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar. He received a second master's degree from the Queen's University Belfast as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.
Notable articles
McCormick, Ty. "In Pursuit of the African Dream." Foreign Policy. August 2016.
McCormick, Ty. "One Day, We Will Start a Big War." Foreign Policy. October 2015.
McCormick, Ty. "Unmade in the USA: The Inside Story of a U.S. Foreign-Policy Failure in South Sudan." Foreign Policy. February 2015.