Bob Drogin

Bob Drogin (born March 29, 1952) is an American journalist and author. He worked for the Los Angeles Times, for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the Times as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly every state in the United States. He spent eight years as a foreign correspondent, and as bureau chief in Manila and Johannesburg, before returning to the U.S. He covered intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau, from 1998 until retiring in November 2020.

Drogin has won a number of awards during his career, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and two prizes for his book Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, the story of the Iraqi informant known as Curveball, who was a key source of false claims about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (WMD).