Title: November 4th | “Middle Powers; Africa Battlegrounds” with NYT Chief Africa Correspondent and Pulitzer Prize Winner Declan Walsh

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 4:30–6:00 p.m. | Gaston Hall, Healy Hall, Georgetown University 

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, together with the Trustees of the Weintal Endowment, will host the 2025 Edward “Teddy” Weintal Prize for Distinguished Reporting on Foreign Policy and Diplomacy on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in Gaston Hall.

This year’s Weintal Prize honors Declan Walsh, The New York Times Chief Africa Correspondent, whose reporting on the Sudanese civil war earned him and the Times staff the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, as well as the George Polk Award and the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. Walsh joined The New York Times in 2011 after seven years with The Guardian and has reported extensively from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa. He is the author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan and recipient of multiple awards for international reporting. Read Mr. Walsh’s full bio here.

The event will feature a conversation with Mr. Walsh moderated by Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs and Chief Washington Correspondent, and Trustee of the Edward “Teddy” Weintal Endowment.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 4:30–6:00 p.m. | Gaston Hall, Healy Hall, Georgetown University 

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Declan Walsh is the Chief Africa Correspondent at The New York Times, based in Nairobi. Walsh’s reporting on the Sudanese civil war earned him and the Times‘ staff the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, as well as a George Polk Award and a James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism.

In 2011, Walsh joined The New York Times after seven years with The Guardian, where he covered Pakistan and Afghanistan. During his tenure, his reporting led to his expulsion from Pakistan in 2013. He later moved to Cairo, where he reported as an international correspondent across the Middle East. In 2016, Walsh spent six months in the United States writing “Abroad in America,” a column about the presidential election. Since 2020, he has been based in Kenya, where he previously worked as a freelance reporter in the early 2000s.

Walsh was born and raised in the west of Ireland and studied at University College Dublin and Dublin City University. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Granta. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2019 for his reporting from Yemen. His book The Nine Lives of Pakistan (2020) received the Cornelius Ryan Award for nonfiction from the Overseas Press Club of America. In 2024, he was part of a New York Times team recognized by the Press Club for its coverage of Russia and Ukraine.

Andrea Mitchell is a deeply respected trailblazer among women in journalism. From her earliest days covering City Hall in Philadelphia in the 1960s to her storied career at NBC starting in 1978, she has been asking tough questions of people in power — and getting answers — for seven decades. She has received every major journalism award and honor, including a 2019 Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in News.

Andrea has covered eight Presidents and every presidential transition since 1980, and has reported from North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, Ukraine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Pakistan, Haiti, Sudan, and Japan, among many other parts of the world.