Ty McCormick

Ty McCormick is an American foreign correspondent and magazine editor. He is deputy web editor of Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations.[1] From 2015 to 2018, he was the Africa editor at Foreign Policy magazine.[2] His writing has also appeared in the New York Times,[3] Washington Post,[4] Los Angeles Times,[5] Newsweek,[6] New Republic,[7] and National Geographic.[8]

Ty McCormick
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Oxford University
Queen's University Belfast
OccupationJournalist
EmployerForeign Affairs
AwardsRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize

Career

He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Cairo, where he covered the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath.[9] He joined the editorial staff of Foreign Policy in 2012 and was appointed Africa editor in 2015.[10] He has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.[11]

His October 2017 cover story in Foreign Policy, "Highway Through Hell,"[12] was part of a five-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting that won a 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.[13][14] He received the 2016 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Bronze Prize for his reporting on war crimes in the Central African Republic, "some witnessed and photographed courageously by the reporter," according to the citation from the U.N. Correspondents Association.[15][16] He was a finalist for the 2015 Kurt Schork Award for his reporting on the civil war in South Sudan.[17]

He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.[18] He received a second master's degree from the Queen's University Belfast[19] as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.[20][21]

Personal

He married attorney and feminist author Jill Filipovic in 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.[22]

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References
  1. "Staff". Foreign Affairs. 2020-06-01. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  2. "Foreign Policy - News Release". link.foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. Malik, Adeel; Mccormick, Ty (2013-08-06). "Egypt's Economy of Dependence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  4. McCormick, Ty (2014-08-23). "To South Sudan's woes, add famine — 50,000 kids at risk of death". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  5. McCormick, Ty (2013-07-10). "A backlash builds in Egypt". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
  6. "Ty McCormick". Newsweek. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  7. McCormick, Ty (2011-12-17). "The Depressing Reality of Egyptian Politics: It's Islamists vs. the Military". New Republic. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  8. "Wrestling Keeps 'Identity of the Nuba' Alive in Sudanese Refugee Camps". news.nationalgeographic.com. 2014-11-28. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  9. "Ty McCormick". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  10. "Foreign Policy - News Release". link.foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  11. "Ty McCormick | Foreign Policy". Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  12. "Highway Through Hell". Foreign Policy - Europe Slams Its Gates: Imperiling Africa — And Its Own Soul. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  13. Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human. "FULL LIST: 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Award Winners". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  14. "Pulitzer Center Grantees Win RFK Grand Prize, Print, and New Media Awards". Pulitzer Center. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  15. "2016 UNCA Awards Winners « The United Nations Correspondents Association". unca.com. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  16. "Turkish photojournalist of world-shaking picture of drowned Syrian toddler to receive UNCA award - RIGHTS". Hürriyet Daily News | LEADING NEWS SOURCE FOR TURKEY AND THE REGION. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  17. Foundation, Thomson Reuters. "Kurt Schork Awards 2015 finalists announced". news.trust.org. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  18. Oxford, University of. ", Clarendon Fund Scholarships". www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  19. "Queen's University of Belfast graduations list - December 10 2015 - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  20. "Twelve selected to receive the George J Mitchell Scholarship for 2015 - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  21. "Two from Stanford named Marshall Scholars and one a Mitchell Scholar". Stanford University. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  22. "Jill Filipovic, Ty McCormick". The New York Times. 2018-02-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-21.


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