Stephen Braun

Stephen Braun is a reporter for the Associated Press.[1]

Braun was with the Los Angeles Times for many years, and served as national correspondent for the paper from 1993 to 2008. While at the Times, the paper won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for its coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, where Braun played an integral part of the writing.[2][3]

Reporting done by Braun with Eileen Sullivan in August 2016 regarding donors to the Clinton Foundation who later met with Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State received a great deal of scrutiny.[4][5][6]

Braun also previously reported for the Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Daily News and Baltimore News-American. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.[1]

Braun also co-authored the book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (2007) with Douglas Farah. The book tells the story of the international weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and was released a year before Bout was arrested in a DEA sting. The book detailed how Bout was able to deliver weapons to the deviant groups and nations, including militants in the Taliban, Somalia, and Yemen.[7] Publishers Weekly wrote that, "The authors paint a depressing picture of an avalanche of war-making material pouring into poor, violence-wracked nations despite well-publicized U.N. embargoes."[8]

References

  1. ^ a b About the authors, Merchant of Death book website, Retrieved August 24, 2016
  2. ^ Stephen Braun, worldaffairs.org, last updated 9 January 2008
  3. ^ Shaw, David (14 April 1993). Times Wins a Pulitzer for Coverage of Riots : Journalism: Prize is for spot news, Los Angeles Times
  4. ^ (24 August 2016). AP: Foundation donors gained access to Clinton at State Dept., MSNBC
  5. ^ Yglesias, Matthew (24 August 2016). The AP’s big exposé on Hillary meeting with Clinton Foundation donors is a mess, Vox
  6. ^ LeTourneau, Nancy (24 August 2016). How the AP Spun the Story About the Clinton Foundation, Washington Monthly
  7. ^ Scott Shane (August 29, 2010). "An Arms Sales Suspect, Bargaining With Secrets". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  8. ^ "Review: Merchant of Death - Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible". Publishers Weekly. June 11, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2013.


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