Steven James Johnson

Following the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, in 1993, as a reporter for the The Los Angeles Times, Murray Waas, and colleague Douglas Frantz, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of investigative reporting for his stories detailing that administration's prewar foreign 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, for "a series that detailed United States policy toward Iraq before the Persian Gulf war.

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