Rowan Scarborough, a veteran Pentagon reporter and author, is joining The Washington Examiner as the newspaper’s national security correspondent.
Scarborough has covered national security since 1989 for The Washington Times and is the author of “Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander,” a 2004 New York Times best seller.
“Given the times we live in, our readers deserve timely and knowledgeable information about a broad range of national security issues,” said Stephen G. Smith, The Examiner’s executive editor. “As a Pentagon reporter for The Washington Times over the past 18 years, Rowan has distinguished himself as the best in the field.”
Before going to the Times, Scarborough worked for Defense Week, the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and the Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times. He served in the Navy as a hospital corpsman, graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism and completed a media fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Scarborough said he joined The Examiner “because the paper is committed to authoritative and incisive coverage of national security and defense issues from a Washington perspective.”
“It’s also exciting to be working for a news organization that is at the forefront of addressing readers’ changing tastes and demands,” he said. “I plan to provide Examiner readers with thorough, fair-minded coverage at this critical time.”
Scarborough won national attention for an investigative series on an Army general who had sexual relations with the wives of his subordinates.
