{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Mark Hosenball | image = | alt = | caption = Mark Hosenball (2005) | birth_name = Mark Jeffrey Hosenball | birth_date = 1951 | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio<ref name="nytimes1976" /> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|death date†|birth date†}} --> | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = {{marriage|Carol O'Donaghue|1977}}<ref>{{cite news | title=Notes on People | date=May 21, 1977 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/21/archives/notes-on-people.html | work=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> | children = Alex Hosenball<ref>{{citation | title=Mark Hosenball '74 and his son, Alex Hosenball, currently the Online Managing Editor for 34th Street | date=July 2, 2013 | url=https://www.facebook.com/dailypennalumni/photos/mark-hosenball-74-and-his-son-alex-hosenball-currently-the-online-managing-edito/462493160506961/ | work=facebook.com }}</ref> }}
'''Mark Hosenball''' is an American national security correspondent and investigative reporter at ''[[Reuters]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Journalist Spotlight: Mark Hosenball reveals how he scored exclusive Syria aid news |url=https://www.reutersagency.com/en/reuters-best/journalist-spotlight-mark-hosenball-reveals-how-he-scored-exclusive-syria-aid-news/ |website=Reuters News Agency |access-date=12 November 2021 |date=11 July 2013}}</ref> Prior to joining Reuters in September 2010, he worked for ''[[Newsweek]]''. He started there in November 1993, after working at [[Dateline NBC]] as an investigative producer. He also worked at ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', the ''[[Evening Standard]]'', ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'', and contributed articles to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The New Republic]]''. He has also done commentaries for [[American Public Radio]].
==Early life and education== Hosenball moved to the United Kingdom at age 18 and attended [[Leighton Park School]] in [[Reading, Berkshire]] for one year. He returned to the United States to attend the [[University of Pennsylvania]], then attended [[Trinity College, Dublin]] for three years.<ref name="nytimes1976">{{cite news |last1=Kilborn |first1=Peter T. |title=American Newsman Told to Quit Britain |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/17/archives/american-newsman-told-to-quit-britain-reporter-for-the-evening.html |access-date=12 November 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=17 November 1976 |location=London |page=5 |language=en |format=print newspaper}}</ref><ref name="pbsdoc">{{cite web |title=America at a Crossroads: Inside the Muslim Brotherhood |url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_the_brotherhood_film.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428114113/http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_the_brotherhood_film.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 28, 2007 |website=www.pbs.org |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |access-date=12 November 2021 |language=en |date=April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uniset.ca/other/css/hosenball.html|title = R. V. Home Secretary, ex p. Hosenball}}</ref>
==Career== After completing his education in Ireland, Hosenball returned to Britain, where he found work as a journalist. In 1976, while working for ''Time Out'', Hosenball, [[Duncan Campbell (journalist, born 1952)|Duncan Campbell]], and [[Crispin Aubrey]] (who had also been at [[Leighton Park School]]) wrote a story entitled "The Eavesdroppers", which mentioned the existence of Britain's [[Government Communications Headquarters]] (GCHQ).<ref name="harding173">{{cite book|last1=Harding|first1=Luke|title=The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man|date=2014|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=9780804173520|oclc=870337274|pages=[https://archive.org/details/snowdenfilesinsi0000hard/page/172 172–173]|quote=[...] some young journalists in Britain wrote an article called 'The Eavesdroppers.' [...] One, a US citizen named Mark Hosenball, was deported without a right to trial as a purported 'threat to British national security.'|url=https://archive.org/details/snowdenfilesinsi0000hard/page/172}}</ref> Hosenball was deported on grounds of being a "threat to British national security."<ref name="nytimes1976" /><ref name="harding173"/> Although he challenged the order in court, he was denied,<ref>Court ruling, "[http://www.uniset.ca/other/css/hosenball.html R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Hosenball]", [1977] 1 W.L.R. 766; [1977] 3 All E.R. 452; Lord Denning presiding judge, March 29, 1977.</ref> and was deported to the United States in 1977.
Hosenball began working for ''Newsweek'' as an investigative correspondent in November 1993. Here he covered a range of issues for the National Affairs department. He has also written stories on terrorism and the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] on the U.S., campaign finance, the [[Clinton-Lewinsky scandal]], the death of [[Princess Diana]], [[Whitewater controversy|Bill and Hillary Clinton Whitewater political investigation]], the crashes of [[EgyptAir Flight 990]] and [[TWA flight 800]], and related air safety issues.<ref name="pbsdoc" />
Prior to working for ''Newsweek'', Hosenball worked for Dateline NBC as an investigative producer and print journalist. As a print journalist, he contributed to many British and American publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Hosenball |url=https://muckrack.com/mark-hosenball |access-date=12 November 2021 |website=muckrack.com |language=en}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== Hosenball has won a number of awards and honors: *[[Overseas Press Club]]'s most prestigious honour{{which|date=June 2014}} *2002 Ed Cunningham Memorial Award for Hosenball's reporting on the [[war on terror]] *[[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]] for General Excellence in 2002 for its{{clarify|date=June 2014}} coverage of September 11 and its aftermath *2002 [[Edgar A. Poe Award]] for Excellence for a story he co-authored *1991 [[Peabody Award]] for his contribution to NBC News coverage of the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International|BCCI]] scandal<ref name=cosmos>{{cite web|title=Mark Hosenball (biographical details)|url=http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=14837|publisher=Cosmos|accessdate=23 July 2013}}</ref>
==Personal life== Hosenball is married, has a son and currently resides in the Washington, D.C. area.<ref name="pbsdoc" />
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|39921}}
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