Helene Cooper — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic
Serves as Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times
Author of the memoir 'The House at Sugar Beach' (2008) and 'Madame President'
Won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award in 2000 for Washington reporting
Graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1987

Biography

Helene Cooper is a Liberian-born American journalist currently serving as the Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. Prior to this role, she was the paper's White House correspondent in Washington, D.C. She joined The New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorial page editor.

Cooper was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.