Viveca Novak is an

American journalist Journalism in the United States began as a "humble" affair and became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence, the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of the press and freedom o ...

who has worked as the editorial and communications director at

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since 2011. She was previously a Washington correspondent for ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

'' and ''

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''. She is a frequent guest on CNN, NBC, PBS, and Fox. ''Time'' announced in its issue of December 5, 2005, that Novak was cooperating with Special Counsel

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's investigation of the

Valerie Plame Valerie Elise Plame (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer ...

leak. She is not related to

Robert Novak Robert David Sanders Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the ...

, another journalist involved in the incident.

Role in the Valerie Plame Scandal

On December 2, 2005, ''

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'' reported that Karl Rove's lawyer,

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, learned from Novak that one of her colleagues at ''

'', Matthew Cooper, had interviewed Rove about Plame. Her conversation with Luskin may have set in motion events that caused Rove to change his earlier grand jury testimony. Special prosecutor

did not seek

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charges against Rove, possibly because it was unclear whether or not Rove intended to testify falsely the first time. Rove attributed his changed testimony to faulty memory. Novak wrote her own account of the experience in'' Time''.

Education and awards

Education

*B.A. in Foreign Affairs from

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

*M.S. from

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s ...

*M.S.L from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

Awards

* Sigma Delta Chi Award, public service in online journalism *Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting *Clarion Award for investigative reporting *Investigative Reporters and Editors Award

Bibliography

*''Inside the Wire : A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo'', co-authored with

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, 2005 ()

References

External links

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Biography from
The

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Novak, Viveca American reporters and correspondents Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Virginia alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Yale Law School alumni People associated with the Plame affair