Ben Taub

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Ben Taub is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and has been writing for the magazine since 2015. His projects have encompassed the topics of jihadism, crime, conflict, climate change, exploration, and human rights, on four continents and at sea, and have won the Pulitzer Prize, a National Magazine Award, two consecutive George Polk Awards, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and other honors. 

The Pulitzer Center has supported several of his most ambitious reporting projects: on war crimes in Syria, sex trafficking in the Sahel, post-ISIS Iraq, and hybrid warfare along the Norwegian-Russian border.

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