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'''Rajiv Chandrasekaran''' is an [[Indian-American]] journalist. He is the National Editor of ''[[The Washington Post]]'', where he has worked since 1994.

==Life==
He grew up mostly in the [[San Francisco Bay]] area. He attended [[Stanford University]], where he became editor-in-chief of ''[[The Stanford Daily]]'' and earned a degree in political science.<ref>[http://rajivc.com/about-rajiv/ About Rajiv Chandrasekaran] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20140909082152/http://rajivc.com/about-rajiv/ |date=2014-09-09 }} at official site rajivc.com</ref>

At ''The Post'' he has served as bureau chief in [[Baghdad]], [[Cairo]], and [[Southeast Asia]], and as a correspondent covering the war in [[Afghanistan]]. During 2003, the ''Post'' put his stories on the front page 138 times.<ref>Natalie Pompilio. [http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=3785 Back from the Rajiv Palace], ''[[American Journalism Review]]'', Jan. 2005</ref>
In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] [[School of Advanced International Studies]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://internationalreportingproject.org/about/advisory-board/rajiv-chandrasekaran/|title=Rajiv Chandrasekaran|publisher=International Reporting Project|accessdate=12 September 2013}}</ref> and a public policy scholar at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]].

Chandrasekaran's 2006 book ''[[Imperial Life in the Emerald City|Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone]]'' won the 2007 [[Samuel Johnson Prize]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/19/books.usa|title=Chronicle of US chaos in Iraq wins £30,000 non-fiction prize|last=Ezard|first=John|date=19 June 2007|work=The Guardian|accessdate=12 September 2013}}</ref> and was a finalist for the 2006 [[National Book Awards]] for non-fiction.<ref>{{cite book|last=Persky|first=Stan|title=Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dt8BXMm7HoC&q=Rajiv+Chandrasekaran+Johnson+prize&pg=PA127|year=2012|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0773540477|page=127}}</ref> The film ''[[Green Zone (film)|Green Zone]]'' (2010) is "credited as having been 'inspired by'" the book.<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: "Green Zone" |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/green-zone-1117942351/ |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |date=4 March 2010 |publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|title=[[Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone]] |publisher=Knopf|year=2006|isbn=9780307278838}}
*{{cite book|title=Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan|url=https://archive.org/details/littleamericawar0000chan|url-access=registration|publisher=Knopf|year=2012|isbn=9780307957146}}
*{{cite book|title=For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice|place=New York|publisher=Vintage|year=2014|isbn=9781101872826}} (with [[Howard Schultz]])

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080217040059/http://www.rajivc.com/ Official page]
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2007/story/0,,2212412,00.html Interview with The Guardian]
*{{C-SPAN|Rajiv Chandrasekaran}}
**[http://www.c-span.org/video/?194390-1/rajiv-chandrasekaran-imperial-life-emerald-city-2006 C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Chandrasekaran on ''Imperial Life in the Emerald City'', September 24, 2006]

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