Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is a prominent American journalist. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East. is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... This article is about the literary magazine. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

Danner was born at Utica, New York. He studied modern literatures and aesthetics at Harvard. After graduating in 1981, he joined the staff of The New York Review of Books. Utica, New York is a city in the State of New York and the county seat of Oneida County. ... “NY” redirects here. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, founded in 1636. ...

In 1984, Danner joined Harper's Magazine as senior editor. In 1986, he joined The New York Times Magazine, where he stayed for four years. An issue of Harpers from 1905 November 2004 issue Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts from a progressive, left perspective. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

In 1990, Danner joined the staff of The New Yorker shortly after the magazine published his three-part series on Haiti, "A Reporter At Large: Beyond the Mountains".

On December 6, 1993, for only the second time in its history, The New Yorker devoted its entire issue to one article, Danner's piece, "The Truth of El Mozote", an investigation into the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, thought to be the worst atrocity in modern Latin American history. The Mozote article became the basis for Danner's first book, The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War, which was published in 1994. December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The memorial at El Mozote The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces killed an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Danner is also the author of The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels through the 2000 Florida Recount (2003) and Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (2004) as well as forthcoming books on Haiti and the Balkans.

In 1999, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...

Danner co-wrote and helped produce two hour-long television documentaries for ABC News' Peter Jennings Reporting series: While America Watched: The Bosnian Tragedy and House on Fire: America's Haitian Crisis, which both aired in 1994. As commentator, Danner has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS, CNN's Prime News, ABC's World News Now, and C-Span's Morning Show. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...

Danner is Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights at Bard College. Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... For other meanings of the word Bard, see Bard (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Mark Danner's website
• Mark Danner joins the discussion, The Question of Torture at the Carnegie Council
• Bio and links to articles
• Articles at the NYRB
• Long interview at UC Berkeley
• Sketchy bio-bibliographical note
• Interview with MotherJones.com, December 7, 2004
• Salon.com interview February 28, 2006
• Into the Inferno, with Notebook, Harvard Magazine on-line