Iraq—In Search of Truth and Trust

Tina Susman was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Baghdad from February 2007 until April 2009, when she returned to New York to become a national correspondent.

From 1990 to 2001, she reported from sub-Saharan Africa, first for the Associated Press and later for Newsday. She returned to the U.S. in 2001 as a national correspondent for Newsday. Her assignments have ranged from the Asian tsunami to the Michael Jackson trial and included the war in Darfur, the London terrorist bombings, civil strife in Haiti, and the Athens Olympics. In Africa, she began by covering the end of apartheid in South Africa and went on to write about the Rwandan genocide, the famine and civil war in Somalia, and conflicts in Liberia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Angola, Nigeria and elsewhere.

Mark Schoofs is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who writes on global public health for the Wall Street Journal. As an Open Society Fellow, Schoofs began research on a book, Sex and Blood: A Tale of Two Epidemics, which explores the distinct historical, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the Russian and South African AIDS epidemics.

Schoofs won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for an eight-part series on AIDS in Africa for the Village Voice. He also contributed to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, which was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer for Breaking News, and helped edit the paper’s coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. His lead role in one of the Journal’s most ambitious investigative series of recent years—“Secrets of the System,” which revealed abuse and fraud in the United States' $500 billion Medicare system—was finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

Schoofs has written on a wide variety of other subjects, as well, including the effects of war in Africa, access to medicine in developing nations, innovative policing methods, the international drug trade, money-laundering, and gay life in Africa.