Michael Weisskopf (born 1946) is a Polk Award-winning journalist, currently working as a senior correspondent for ''

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finalist in 1996 for the accounts he and

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gave of the activities in 1995 following the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994, Weisskopf specialized in national and international news during 20 years at ''

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''.Michael Weisskopf - biography, plus book reviews & excerpts
from bookbrowse.com While he was embedded with a US Army unit in

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on December 10, 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the

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in which he was riding. He was the first reporter to be treated at the

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. Weisskopf later wrote about this event in his book ''Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57''. Fluent in

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, Weisskopf covered China for the ''Post'' from 1980 to 1985. He has written a book, ''Blood Brothers'', about amputated American Iraq War veterans and co-written two: ''Truth at Any Cost'', with investigative journalist

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about the

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, and ''Tell Newt to Shut Up'', with

about the 1994 Republican takeover. Weisskopf has received the

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, the Press Club of Atlantic City's National Headliners Award,War and War Related Coverage,
National Headliner Awards Print Division
", National Headliner Awards website the Los Angeles Press Club's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the

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's Fourth Estate Award and the Embassy of Italy's 2007 Urbino Press Award. In 2014, it was reported that Weisskopf was working as a broker on several real estate projects.

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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Weisskopf, October 22, 2006
20th-century American journalists American male journalists 1946 births Living people The Washington Post people George Polk Award recipients Place of birth missing (living people) War correspondents of the Iraq War American amputees {{US-journalist-1940s-stub