Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Oberlin College.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Oberlin College.
He is a native of Bayonne, New Jersey, and a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Drogin first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1983 as a national correspondent based in New York City. He traveled to nearly every state and covered the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.
He subsequently moved overseas as a foreign correspondent, serving as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg.
He reported on Nelson Mandela"s election as president of South Africa, the genocide in Rwanda, the Gulf War, and other news from nearly 50 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of the 2007 book, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Manitoba Who Caused a War, which describes the role of the Curveball, the Iraqi informant who was a key source for false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
The Overseas Press Club of America gave Curveball the 2007 "Cornelius Ryan Award" for best non-fiction book on international affairs