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Colin Clark

Verified
Sydney, Washington, D.C.
Covers:  Defense Department, weapons, NATO, Congress, strategy, terrorism, intelligence, spy satellites, F-35, Australian military, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Special Operations, Intelligence, NRO
Doesn't Cover: Veterans, military pay and benefits, Department of Homeland Security,
Substack writer; founding editor of Breaking Defense. Proud dad, husband, fisherman, grill king, Sydneysider & consumer of fine Antipodean wines.

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I'm the only person to create two successful all-online defense news websites, Breaking Defense (formerly AOL Defense) and DoDBuzz. Breaking Defense is the digital magazine on the strategy, politics and technology of defense. We offer analysis, perspective and insight on the single largest part of the US federal government, NATO, US partners and allies and the threats they face.

Experience

Jul 2021 – Present
Founding Editor
Breaking Defense
Washington, D.C.

I handed off the editor job in July t…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Cleaning the presses at the Chicago Tribune. OK, it's a job in journalism -- not one as a journalist.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

News curators like me only grow more important as news sources proliferate and their quality varies wildly.

Webby honoree

2009 - political blog

DoD Buzz was ranked one of the world’s top political blogs, along with counterparts at the BBC, New Yorker, Guardian, Time and Vanity Fair only nine months after I created it.

Newsletter Publisher’s Foundation

1998 - Interpretive or Analytical Reporting

Award for my groundbreaking coverage of the Pentagon's first Quadrennial Defense Review.

Florida Society of Newspaper Editors

1994 - Public Service Reporting [team]

Our coverage of Palm Beach County schools crime and violence revealed systemic challenges with how to discipline students, when to send them to jail and the effectiveness of the entire system.

Award for Outstanding Achievement

2019 - Defense Journalism

The Defence Media Award for Outstanding Achievement is annual. It's basically a lifetime achievement award.