Richard Engel





Richard Engel

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September 16, 1973 in New York, New York, The United States

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Richard Engel is an American television journalist and author best known as NBC News's chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 from being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary."

Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, War Journal: My Fiv...more


Average rating: 4.10 · 212 ratings · 64 reviews · 2 distinct works
War Journal: My Five Years ...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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A Fist In the Hornet's Nest...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings9 editions
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