David Corn
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| Born | February 20, 1959 |
| Education | Brown University (1982) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Known for | Winner of George Polk Award for Journalism, 2012 |
| Notable credit(s) | Chief of Washington bureau for Mother Jones (magazine); Washington editor for The Nation, appeared regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv |
| Spouse(s) | Welmoed Laanstra |
| Children | Maaike Laanstra-Corn, Amarins Laanstra-Corn |
| Website | www.davidcorn.com |
David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American liberal political journalist and author and the chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones. He has been Washington editor for The Nation and appeared regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and BloggingHeads.tv opposite James Pinkerton or other media personalities.
In February 2013, he was named winner of the 2012 George Polk Award in journalism in the political reporting category for his video and reporting of the "47 percent story," Republican nominee Mitt Romney's videoed meeting with donors during the 2012 presidential campaign.
As an author, Corn's output includes nonfiction and fiction and generally deals with government and politics. Corn has also been a book reviewer. On one occasion, he criticized his own organization when Nation Books published the translation of a controversial French book on Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks. Forbidden Truth: US-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden, by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, suggests that the attacks resulted from a breakdown in talks between the Taliban and the United States to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Corn argued that publishing "contrived conspiracy theories" undermined the ability to expose actual governmental misbehavior.
Corn was raised in a Jewish family in White Plains, New York. He attended Brown University where he majored in history and worked for The Brown Daily Herald. After his junior year, he interned at the The Nation where he accepted a job as editorial assistant instead of returning to finish his degree. He earned his remaining credits at Columbia University and received a B.A. from Brown University in 1982. He joined Mother Jones in 2007.
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