James Verini is an American magazine journalist and book author. He is a contributing writer at ''

The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine Supplement (publishing), supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted man ...

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National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly the ''National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is a popular American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the most widely ...

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The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''The Atavist'', ''Foreign Policy'', and others. His book ''They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate'' was published on September 17, 2019, by W. W. Norton.

Career

In 2015, he received a

National Magazine Award The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

for feature writing for "Love and Ruin," an article in ''The Atavist'' about the history of American intervention in Afghanistan. He won a 2015

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the award ...

for "Should the United Nations Wage War to Keep Peace?", about the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo, in ''National Geographic''.

Bibliography

* Title in the online table of contents is "We’ve got to escape, or we die". *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Verini, James Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American reporters and correspondents George Polk Award recipients The New Yorker people