Tim McGirk

Tim McGirk is a former bureau chief and war correspondent for Time magazine. He has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the hunt for al-Qaeda. He also worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America for Time and prior to that for the British daily The Independent and The Sunday Times, where he served as Foreign Manager (as did, several decades earlier, James Bond creator Ian Fleming).

His exposé on the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha by U.S. Marines won the UK Foreign Press Association’s Print Story of the Year in 2006. He was awarded the Henry Luce Prize for International Reporting, the 2006 SOPA award for Excellence in Feature Writing. Twice he was a finalist for the US National Magazine Awards.

His journalism has also appeared in National Geographic, The Believer, Esquire (UK), The Spectator. McGirk’s biography “Wicked Lady, Salvador Dali’s Muse,” was published in the UK and translated into five languages. As part of The Sunday Times’ Insight Team, he also co-authored “Rainbow Warrior: The French Attempt to Sink Greenpeace.” After leaving Time, he also taught investigative and foreign reporting at U.C. Berkeley's School of Journalism and served as Managing Editor of their Investigative Reporting Program.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, McGirk currently lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife, and within sight of the Pacific Ocean.