Michael Hastings (journalist)
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Michael Hastings and Valerie Jarrett at Barack Obama's victory party, 2012
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| Born |
Michael Mahon Hastings January 28, 1980 Malone, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 18, 2013 (aged 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | New York University (2002) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | War correspondent (Iraq and Afghanistan) |
| Notable work | "The Runaway General" |
| Spouse(s) | Elise Jordan (m. 2011; d. 2013) |
| Awards | George Polk Award Norman Mailer Prize |
| Website | www |
Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancee Andrea Parhamovich was killed when her car was ambushed in Iraq, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the violent insurgency that took her life.
He received the George Polk Award for "The Runaway General" (2010), a Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war. The article documented the widespread contempt for civilian government officials by the general and his staff and ultimately resulted in McChrystal's resignation. Hastings followed up with The Operators (2012), a detailed book account of his month-long stay with McChrystal in Europe and Afghanistan.
Hastings became a vocal critic of the Obama administration, Democratic Party and surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism. His last story, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7. Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California. Blue Rider Press posthumously published his only novel, The Last Magazine (2014), a year after his death.
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