About the Project
Over the past year, Washington Post Opinions columnist David Ignatius paired a relentless pursuit of innovation, in form and content, with deeply reported commentary on national security and foreign affairs.
For his groundbreaking four-part summer serial “The Tao of Deception,” David deployed the techniques of fiction to illuminate the most important great-power relationship in the world today.
The result was a textured journey into the shadowy spy wars between the CIA and the Chinese Ministry of State Security that would have been impossible with a more conventional approach. While the central characters and details that drove the David’s thriller were invented, readers understood that they were rooted in decades of in-depth national security reporting.
A similar combination of creativity and command of subject marked David’s work on the biggest stories of the past year. Informed by superior sourcing and on-the-ground observation, he worked tirelessly to provide his readers with the fullest possible picture of devastating conflict.
David traveled to Gaza, Israel, the West Bank and Qatar to offer readers urgent yet far-sighted columns with a clear and earned point of view. His reporting from Ukraine revealed the tech revolution that is changing war-fighting in real time — and a portrait of the colorful Ukrainian general at the nexus of it all.
And there was a time for a bit of fun, too: As an end-of-year feature, Ignatius worked with Post Opinions visuals editors to create an interactive quiz that let readers compare their crystal-ball predictions on the year to come with his.
We proudly nominate David Ignatius for a 2024 Online Journalism Award in Online Commentary.
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