The modern world has gone digital. Newspapers become webpages, intelligence becomes virtual data, national security becomes cybersecurity, and war is waged from computer screens.
Eric Schmitt, a senior writer for the New York Times, has had a front-row seat to the changing world of conflict journalism. Schmitt celebrates his 40th year with the Times this year, joining the paper in 1983 and covering national security and terrorism as a concentration since 2007. He has shared four Pulitzer Prizes.
In 2011, Schmitt co-authored “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda” with fellow Times reporter Thom Shanker, a book delving into the shocking story of how U.S. analysts developed and executed new counterterrorism strategies to fight Al Qaeda and what it means for the ongoing struggle against radical extremist terrorism. Today, Schmitt covers a variety of issues related to military conflict, national security and terrorism for the Times.
In the wake of another global crisis in the war between Israel and Hamas, Schmitt sat down to discuss what it is to cover war and national security in a fast-moving, perpetually shifting world.
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