American journalist, Hedges is a war correspondent specializing in America and the Middle East. For two decades he was a correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, reporting from more than fifty countries. Between 1990 and 2005 he worked for numerous media such as The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times. In 2002 he was part of the New York Times reporters team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of global terrorism, and also received the Global Award for Human Rights Journalism from Amnesty International. He has taught at the universities of Columbia, New York, Princeton and Toronto. In 2011 Hedges composed what the New York Times described as a "call to arms" for the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the newspaper that since then gives voice to the protest movement, and is also the author of several bestsellers, Among those listed are War is a force that gives us meaning (2002), finalist of the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction books; I Do not Believe in Atheists (2008); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); and Days of Destructions, Days of Revolt (2012), his most recent book, written in collaboration with the cartoonist Joe Sacco.