Pamela Constable
Pamela Constable is a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. She has specialized in coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pamela Groom Constable | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Ethel Walker School Greenwich Country Day School |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Occupation | journalist |
Employer | The Washington Post |
Known for | Coverage of Afghanistan |
Spouse(s) | Mark Ashida (m. 1981-div.) Arturo Arms Valenzuela (m. September 1986-div.) |
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Constable attended Brown University. Her first paid job in journalism began in 1974 at The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland.[4] In the 1980s she was a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun and then the Boston Globe, covering Latin American affairs.[2]
Constable was the Washington Post's bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2019 and previously served as the Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1999 and 2005.[5]
She is the author of two books about South Asia and the U.S intervention there, Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia (2004) and Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself (2011), as well as the 1991 political history A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet with Arturo Valenzuela.[5][6]
Personal life
Constable has practiced animal rescue on her foreign assignments, including a donkey and several dogs.[4] Her father-in-law was the bishop of the Methodist Church of Chile.[2]
References
- "Pamela Constable and Mark Ashida to Marry in May". New York Times. October 26, 1980. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- "Pamela Constable Weds a Professor". The New York Times. September 28, 1986. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- "Statement by Arturo Valenzuela" (PDF). Senate Foreign Relations Committee. July 8, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2009. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- C-Span Q&A "A Reporter's View of Afghanistan" November 17, 2019, viewed August 11, 2020
- "Pamela Constable". Washington Post. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- Books by Pamela Constable at amazon.com