Walter Pincus is a writer for the national news staff of the Washington Post. At the Post, Pincus has written about a variety of national news subjects including nuclear weapons and arms control, political campaigns, the American hostages in Iran, and investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch. For six years he covered the Iran-contra affair. He was also a part-time consultant to NBC News and later to CBS News, where he developed, wrote and produced television segments for network evening news, magazine shows and documentaries. Pincus has won several awards including a Pulitzer in 2001, which he shared with others for stories about Osama bin Laden. He was awarded the first Stewart Alsop Award for national security and intelligence reporting by the Association of Foreign Intelligence Officers; the George Polk Award for stories appearing in the Washington Post that exposed the neutron warhead, the Page One Award for magazine reporting in The Reporter, and a television writing Emmy for a one-hour program on CBS.