# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dexter-filkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:24.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dexter-filkins"
name: "Dexter Filkins"
slug: "dexter-filkins"
description: "Dexter Price Filkins is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and won a Pulitzer in 2009 as part of a team of Times reporters for their dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2009, The Washington Post described him as \"the premier combat journalist of his generation.\" He currently writes for The New Yorker."
tagline: "American journalist and war correspondent (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dexter_Filkins_on_USS_Rafael_Peralta_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1961-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.855623365300784
  historical:           6.193849333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2251874/"
    handle:    "nm2251874"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "ديكستير فيلكينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دکستر فیلکینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Filkins"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Filkins"
    title: "Dexter Filkins"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump