Azmat Khan | Exposing myths of war, US airstrikes in Iraq & being stalked in Pakistan

This episode features award-winning investigative reporter Azmat Khan. Azmat is a contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, a visiting professor at Columbia University and a fellow at Carnegie. Azmat previously worked for PBS Frontline, the Buzzfeed investigations team and AlJazeera in the US. She has exposed major myths of war, prompting policy impact from Washington to Kabul, and she has won nearly a dozen awards including the National Magazine Award for Reporting; the Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Award for Magazine Reporting; the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism; the Deadline Club Award for Independent Digital Reporting; the Deadline Club Award for Magazine Investigative Reporting; the SAJA Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia.

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