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Kim Murphy

Kim Murphy (born, August 26, 1955) is an American journalist who works for the New York Times.[1] She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for International Reporting.

Early years and education[edit]

Murphy was born in 1955 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 from Minot State University.[2]

Career[edit]

Murphy worked as an assistant editor for The North Biloxian in 1973, as a reporter for the Minot Daily News in 1978,[3] and then as a reporter and later the assistant metro editor of the Orange County Register starting in 1982.[2] Murphy began at the Los Angeles Times as a general assignment staff writer, and later became the Times' national and foreign correspondent covering Russia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan and the Pacific Northwest.[4] She became the Moscow Bureau Chief in 1983 and national editor in 2013.[5][2]

Awards[edit]

Murphy won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for International Reporting[7] for "her eloquent, wide ranging coverage of Russia's struggle to cope with terrorism, improve the economy and make democracy work".[2] She won numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Publisher's Prize for Persian Gulf War correspondence, the Orange County Press Club Award,[7] four times, and the Society of Professional Journalists,[7] Delta Chi, foreign correspondence.[7]