Steve Vogel

Steve Vogel

Steve Vogel is a veteran military reporter for The Washington Post. He covered the U.S. war with Iraq in 2003 as an embedded journalist with an Army airborne brigade.  His coverage of the U.S. war in Afghanistan was part of a package of Washington Post stories selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Vogel covered the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon and subsequently reported in depth on the victims of the attack and the building’s reconstruction. His reporting has won journalism awards and resulted in many memorable stories, including Washington Post Magazine cover stories on military test pilots, police 911 operators, and medical emergency workers in a Washington, D.C. hospital.

 

Based overseas from 1989 through 1994 and reporting for the Post and Army Times, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, as well as military operations in Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans. Vogel has worked as a reporter since 1982, covering politics, police and development for newspapers and magazines in the Washington area, and writing an award-winning column for the Journal newspapers in Northern Virginia.

 

             A 1982 graduate of the College of William and Mary, Vogel received a master of international public policy degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1998.

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two young children.

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