Walter Pincus, Esq., has been an editor and reporter, as well as a consultant
to The Washington Post Co., working with its television, magazine and online divisions.
Pincus served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps from 1955 to 1957, and
has worked as a journalist since that time except for two 18-month sabbaticals
in the 1960s when he ran investigations for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
then chaired by Sen. J.W. Fulbright (D-Ark.). Pincus has won several prizes including
a Polk award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and a Pulitzer for national reporting
in association with four other Post reporters. Holding a B.A. degree from Yale
University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Pincus has twice
been a visiting lecturer at Yale University and since 2002 has taught a seminar
at Stanford University's Stanford-in-Washington program.