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Michael Hastings

Biography

Michael Hastings

Michael Hastings was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and a correspondent at large for BuzzFeed. Before that he worked for Newsweek, where he rose to prominence covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the recipient of the 2010 George Polk Award for his Rolling Stone magazine story The Runaway General. Hastings was the author of three books, I LOST MY LOVE IN BAGHDAD, PANIC 2012 and THE OPERATORS. He died in 2013, and was posthumously honored with the Norman Mailer Award for Emerging Journalist.

Michael Hastings

Books by Michael Hastings

by Michael Hastings - Fiction

The year is 2002. Weekly news magazines dominate the political agenda in New York and Washington. A young journalist named Michael M. Hastings is a 22-year-old intern at The Magazine who will stop at nothing to turn his internship into a full-time position. As Hastings loses his naïveté about the journalism game, he must choose where his loyalties lie --- with the men at The Magazine who can advance his career, or with his friend in the field who is reporting the truth.