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Biography
Ellen Nakashima is an American journalist who covers national security for The Washington Post. She is a 2014 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
Education
Nakashima received a B.A. in Humanities from University of California, Berkeley in 1984 before completing a Masters in International Journalism from City University in London.
Career
Nakashima began her journalism career at The Hartford Courant and The Quincy Patriot Ledger, before joining The Washington Post as a reporter in 1995. She has since served as South-East Asia correspondent and a White House reporter until she started covering national security in 2014.
Nakashima has won a series of awards and investitures for her work at The Post. In 2014, she won the Gerald Loeb Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, while in 2017, she was named Alumna of the Year by the Daily Californian Alumni Association.