Nick Turse is a fellow at The Nation Institute, an investigative reporter, the managing editor of The Nation Institute's TomDispatch and the co-founder of Dispatch Books. He is the author, most recently, of Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa as well as the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, which received a 2014 American Book Award. Turse was the recipient of a Ridenhour Prize at the National Press Club in April 2009 for his years-long investigation of mass civilian slaughter by US troops in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, in 1968-1969, during Operation Speedy Express.
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Nick Turse is a fellow at The Nation Institute, an investigative reporter, the managing editor of The Nation Institute's TomDispatch and the co-founder of Dispatch Books. He is the author, most recently, of Tomorrow's Battlefield: US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa as well as the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, which received a 2014 American Book Award. His previous books include The Changing Face of Empire, The Complex, and The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has reported from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa and written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The Intercept, BBC.com, the Daily Beast, Adbusters, GOOD, In These Times, Mother Jones, and the Village Voice, among other print and online publications.
Turse has received a number of honors for his work including a Ridenhour Prize at the National Press Club in April 2009, a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College, and an I.F. Stone "Izzy" Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Journalism. Turse was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on Kill Anything That Moves, a Lannan Foundation Writer's Residency in Marfa, Texas, and has previously been a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War. He has a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.
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