Rod Nordland

Rod Nordland (1949-2025) was the New York Times’s Pulitzer Prize–winning international correspondent at large. Formerly the paper’s Kabul bureau chief, he worked as a foreign correspondent in more than 150 countries. He ws Newsweek’s chief foreign correspondent, serving as Baghdad bureau chief from 2003–2005. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for news reporting and also a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting from Southeast Asia. He received two George Polk awards; several Overseas Press Club awards, and many other honors. He was the author of The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo & Juliet.