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John Dinges is an award-winning investigative reporter and author, who worked in Latin America for many years as a foreign correspondent. After receiving a Masters Degree from Stanford University in Latin American studies, Dinges began freelancing in Chile, writing mainly for The Washington Post, during a six-year period that included the socialist revolution of President Salvador Allende, the violent military coup that overthrew him, and the first five years of the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. He subsequently worked on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, traveling as a reporter to cover the civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. From 1985 to 1996 he worked at National Public Radio as deputy senior foreign editor, managing editor, and editorial director. Dinges is also Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University, currently with emeritus status, and a frequent speaker in English and Spanish on investigative journalism, authoritarianism and the functions of an independent press in preserving democracy. His awards include the Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for Latin American reporting, the DuPont-Columbia gold and silver batons (shared with others at NPR) and the medal "Órden de Bernardo O'Higgins en el Grado de Comendador" conferred by the government of Chile. He has continued his close connection to Chile over the years, helping to create and direct three investigative publications: APSI, CIPERChile and ArchivosChile. His first job in journalism was at the Des Moines Register & Tribune in his native State of Iowa. Before becoming a reporter he studied theology for three years at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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