Stephen Braun

Stephen Braun was most recently based in Washington for the Associated Press, where he spent more than a decade as a national investigative reporter and the news service's National Security Editor. He previously worked 15 years as a national correspondent based in Washington for the Los Angeles Times, covering terrorism, presidential politics and national issues. "Merchant of Death," co-authored with Douglas Farah, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year in 2007 and has been cited by numerous media outlets in their continuing coverage of convicted arms merchant Viktor Bout. The "Merchant of Death" website is available at: http://merchantofdeaththebook.com/ The book was featured on the Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross and "The Diane Rehm Show and many other radio programs. Braun has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, BBC and CBS, and has spoken at Stanford University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, George Mason University and American University. The book was cited in the Congressional Record and in news accounts in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, ABC News, CBS News, the BBC, the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, Le Temps, Le Monde, Liberation, De Standaard and the Montreal Gazette. Braun shared in the Los Angeles Times' 1991 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Los Angeles riots and a 2002 Overseas Press Club international reporting award for "Inside al Qaeda," a series of stories about the rise of the terror group. His reportage ranged from national politics and investigations to foreign and domestic terrorism, and he covered many landmark American news stories of the past two decades, including the Sept. 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and five presidential elections. A Times national correspondent from 1993 to 2008, he covered the Midwest from Chicago and earlier worked as an editor and staff writer in Los Angeles. He also reported at the Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Daily News and Baltimore News American, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. A 1975 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he has also written for Foreign Policy, Rolling Stone, Men's Vogue, the Washington Monthly, the London Sunday Mail and Los Angeles Times Magazine.