murray scott waas

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, while a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Murray Waas, along with colleague Douglas Frantz, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of national reporting for his stories detailing that administration's prewar policy towards the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. That same year, Murray Waas was a recipient of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on The Press, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Douglas Frantz and Murray Waas won for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war.

More recently, Waas has worked as a correspondent and contributing editor of National Journal