About the lecture

How do you make the leap to a bigger stage as a journalist or writer? Ask Joby Warrick, KLN ‘82, who will tell the stories of his journey from local reporter to investigative journalist to best-selling nonfiction author.

With stories from his latest book, Red Line, Warrick takes us inside a harrowing, little-known mission to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State. Warrick will describe how reporting and story-telling skills learned as a “boots on the ground” investigative reporter translated into a book career.

His book, a deeply sourced account hailed by critics, reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that empowered America’s enemies. 

Moderated by David Boardman, Dean, Klein College of Media and Communication.

About the speaker

Joby Warrick is a best-selling author and a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he served for 24 years with the Post’s national and investigative staffs, reporting from Washington and scores of cities around the world. In addition to his latest book, Red Line, he is the author of two previous two nonfiction books, including The Triple Agent, a New York Times best-seller about a CIA operation in Afghanistan; as well as Black Flags, a narrative account of the personalities and events that gave rise to the Islamic State. Black Flags was listed as one of the best books of 2015 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other publications, and was the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.