Joby Warrick

Joby Warrick is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and has served with the Washington Post’s national and investigative staffs for nearly three decades. He is the author of two nonfiction books, including “The Triple Agent” (Doubleday, 2011), and “Black Flags” (Doubleday, 2015). “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.

Until his departure from the Washington Post in 2025, Warrick wrote extensively on topics ranging from Middle East conflicts and terrorism to nuclear proliferation and climate change. 

Warrick previously worked as an investigative reporter for The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., where he co-authored “Boss Hog,” a series of stories that documented the political and environmental fallout caused by factory farming in the Southeast. The series won the 1996 “Gold Medal” Pulitzer Prize for public service and nine other national and regional awards. Prior to that, Warrick was a foreign correspondent for United Press International in Eastern Europe, where he covered the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s.