Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter writing a book for Random House uncovering the human costs and consequences of American and U.S.-supported aerial warfare around the world. She is the Patty Cadby Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she also leads the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, and an investigative reporter at the New York Times Magazine.
Her multi-part series in the New York Times, “The Civilian Casualty Files,” was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. The project was the culmination of more than five years of Khan’s reporting, including ground investigation at the sites of more than 100 civilian casualty incidents in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, more than 1,300 formerly secret military records she obtained in a legal battle with the Pentagon, and scores of interviews with military and local sources.
Her investigations for the New York Times Magazine, the PBS series FRONTLINE, and BuzzFeed’s Investigations team have prompted widespread policy impact from Washington to Kabul and won more than a dozen awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting, two National Magazine awards, and other honors. Khan serves on the Board of Directors of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, on the Overseas Press Club’s Board of Governors, and on the Board of Directors of the Freedom of Press Foundation.
