Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (né Reeve; born April 3, 1937) is an American retired journalist and author.
Ivan Albright adopted Joseph and Alice, who took his surname, and with Josephine had two more children, Adam and Blandina ("Dina").
[21][22] He was a finalist for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on gas and oil policy on public lands.
[23][24] Albright and fellow Cox journalist Cheryl Arvidson won the 1981 Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "...for their series, 'The Snub-Nosed Killers: Handguns in America.
[27] In 1990 Albright and Kunstel co-authored Their Promised Land, an overview of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as seen through the history of the Sorek Valley west of Jerusalem.
"[29][32] A review in Newsweek noted that among the many books on the conflict, Kunstel's and Albright's "stands out for its thoughtfulness, its fairness and its excellent story.
[36][37] Former CIA officer Frederick L. Wettering, reviewing for the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, called it "a well-researched and very well-written biography of a heretofore little known spy.
"[35] Historian Gregg Herken noted it was the first book on Soviet atomic espionage to use archival sources from both Russia and the Venona project.