Cambodia's Curse

Joel Brinkley

Timesman Joel Brinkley dead at 61

Politico | 13 March 2014

 [Truth2Power Media: May you rest in peace, Mr. Joel Brinkley.  You were a great friend of Cambodian democrats.  We mourn the passing of a friend.  Our prayers and condolences to your family.]

Joel Brinkley, the longtime New York Times reporter and editor, died this week of pneumonia at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C., the Times announced in a memo to staff on Thursday. He was 61.

Brinkley, the son of television news anchor David Brinkley, joined the Times D.C. bureau in 1983 after an early career with the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize. In nearly two decades at the paper, Brinkley served as a White House correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief and projects editor, among other roles.

From 2001 to 2006, Brinkley was a director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. He spent the next six years teaching at Stanford University before becoming an adviser to the special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction in 2013. Brinkley also wrote more than 20 pieces for POLITICO between 2011 and 2013.

A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, according to the memo.