Yochi Dreazen Biography
Yochi Dreazen is an American journalist, a former senior writer for Foreign Policy, covering national security and foreign affairs. Prior to joining Foreign Policy, Mr. Dreazen was a contributing editor at The Atlantic and the senior national security correspondent for National Journal, writing long-form features for the print editions of the magazines as well as breaking news and analytic articles for the websites.
Yochi Dreazen Age
He was born in 1976,in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Yochi is 47 years old as of 2023.
Yochi Dreazen Education
He graduated from the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in 1994, where he founded a student newspaper. Before starting college, he spent a year in Israel. He received his magna cum laude degree in history and English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
Yochi Dreazen Wife- Spouse
Dreazen is married to his wife, Annie Rosenzweig Dreazen, and they reside in Washington DC together with their two children.
Yochi Dreazen Books -Career
He is the deputy managing editor and international editor of Vox as of 2016, and the author of The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War, which tells the tale of one Army family’s fight against military suicide. He has previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, as well as the managing editor for news at Foreign Policy. He frequently appears on radio and television shows such as The Diane Rehm Show (NPR) and Washington Week with Gwen Ifill (PBS). Dreazen was the editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, an independent student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania.Dreazen began his career with The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for 11 years.
The Wall Street Journal was Dreazen’s first employer. He landed in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division in April 2003, less than a month after the Iraq War began; he resided in Baghdad for the next two and a half years as The Wall Street Journal’s senior Iraq correspondent. During his 11 years with The Wall Street Journal, Dreazen spent more than five years in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has reported from China, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, among others. The Military Reporters and Editors Association honored Dreazen’s work with its top award for domestic coverage in 2010.
His work included essays on military suicide and the psychological scars experienced by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. His book, The Invisible Front, was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, which was given jointly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Harvard Nieman Foundation for Journalism. In their award acceptance speech, the judges commended the book for its “detailed compassionate and compelling reportfrom the front lines of what Dreazen calls ‘the Army’s third war’ its fight against the plague of military suicides in the wake of our prolonged conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.” The book was also designated one of The New York Times Book Review’s “100 Notable Books of 2014” and one of Amazon.com’s “10 Best Books of the Month”
Yochi Dreazen Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1.5 million dollars.