Ben Taub, M.A. Program Alumnus, Wins 2019 National Magazine Award

We are excited to share that the New Yorker story "Shallow Graves" by Columbia Journalism School Master of Arts Program alumnus Ben Taub has been awarded the 2019 National Magazine Award for Reporting. "Fearless and resolute, Ben Taub is a reporter whose work deserves the greatest respect," said the awards committee in its announcement.  Taub's story also recently won the 2018 George Polk Award for Magazine Journalism.  

Taub, a 2015 graduate of the Master of Arts Program, Politics Concentration, has been earning honors for his December 2018 New Yorker article "Shallow Graves," which explored how the Iraq government's cruel treatment of suspected jihadis and their families could stoke a resurgence of the terror group ISIS in the country. In a New Yorker video, Taub discussed the process of reporting the piece. Now a staff writer at The New Yorker, Taub began his career at the magazine in 2015, when it published a cover story based on his Columbia Journalism School master's thesis about European teenagers who chose to join ISIS. 

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