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Massimo Calabresi ’82 2012 Alumnus Achievement Award Recipient Equipped with a philosophy degree from Yale, a backpack and no particular plans for a career, Massimo Calabresi left the United States after college and spent the next year and a half wandering through Africa and Asia. Luck followed him. He arrived in Moscow in 1991, soon after the August Coup, which pitted Soviet hardliners against President Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform efforts. The coup ended in just a couple of days, but many historians pin the beginning of the Soviet Union’s dissolution to that time. There he was, in a city caught in an historic moment, with a philosopher’s mind, a penchant for writing and the need for a career - any career. He wrote a few stories, sold them to the New Haven Register, the National
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Review, Harper’s, and anyone else who would pay him to write. He was good at it, making a (meager) living, learning and having fun. He had found his life’s calling. Returning to the United States in 1993, he found steady freelance work in the New York bureau of Time magazine. “It was very exhilarating,” he says. “Being a freelancer is a challenge especially when you’re not directly associated with one place. With the work I had been doing overseas, I spent a lot of time pitching and trying to sell stories and less time reporting and writing.” Time magazine eventually hired him. He was sent to the Balkans in early
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1995 to report on wars in BosniaHerzegovina and Croatia, then on to the conflict in Kosovo. He returned home in 1999, initially covering national security and diplomacy, then politics, Congress and the White House. “I had a great time covering Congress,” he says. “It really is the country in microcosm up there; it is still functionally the body that represents the American people, and you get a flavor of the geographical and cultural differences and interests and needs of people from every corner of the country.” He has his favorite stories, including a recent one with veteran Time Washington reporter Michael Weisskopf about the last days of the Bush administration and the dispute over whether Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, merited a presidential pardon. Libby was convicted of a felony in relation to the investigation of the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of Joseph Wilson, an outspoken critic of the Iraq War. He also collaborated with Weisskopf on a story about the rise and fall of the Obama administration’s first White House counsel, Greg Craig, with the larger intent of documenting the president’s move from a left of center position to one more in the middle of the road. “That was in some ways harder than the Bush story,” he says “It was getting inside an administration that was still in power.” But the story that stays with him to this day is an older one, from when he was reporting in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia-Herzegovina. With that article, he learned more about journalism and its challenges, than many stories before or since. Foote Prints