Alissa Johannsen Rubin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist, and the Baghdad Bureau chief for The New York Times.
She attended Brown University, graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in renaissance studies.
The crash killed the helicopter's pilot and injured others, including Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
"[7] In 2015, she won the John Chancellor Award from the Columbia Journalism School for her career of 35 years reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
[8] Rubin won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992 writing about the reality versus politics of abortion in the 1990s.