Marcus Stern
 
Marcus Stern has worked in the Washington Bureau of Copley News Service for 23 years as a regional, national and foreign reporter. During the 1990s, he wrote extensively about immigration, winning several national awards. In 2000, he became the bureau's news editor. Though managing the bureau day to day, he also has continued reporting on special projects. Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, he has made several trips to Central Asia and the Middle East. His foreign assignments have included Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India and Turkey. He has made three wartime trips to Iraq totaling almost five months in country.

His journalism awards include the Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award, Edgar A. Poe, National Headliners, Raymond Clapper, James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Journalism.

Before joining the Copley Washington bureau in 1983, Stern worked for States News Service in Washington and the San Pedro News- Pilot in California. Stern is a third-generation journalist and native of Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of UCLA.