David Cloud
David Cloud is currently the special assistant to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. Previously, he was the Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times from 2005 to 2007 and a national security reporter with The Wall Street Journal for eight years before that. Based in Washington, he has focused since 2001 on the United States military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, which he has reported from in numerous visits. He also has reported from throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Cloud has also worked at The Chicago Tribune, where he covered foreign affairs, and at Congressional Quarterly. In 2002, he was one of several Wall Street Journal reporters awarded the Jesse Laventhol Prize by the American Association of Newspaper Editors for coverage of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Cloud is a graduate of The College of William and Mary, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and he did graduate studies in international relations at the Elliott School of International Relations. He and h is wife, Jennifer, have a son and live in Bethesda, Maryland.
