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He is an Afghanistan War veteran and served in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="author-page-experience mb-8 recurrent-author-page-content"> <h3 class="author-page-heading font-primary font-bold text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-xl mb-5"> Experience </h3> <div class="author-page-section-content font-primary text-secondary-900 text-lg leading-xl mb-5"><p>Since starting at Task & Purpose in 2015, James has worked as a social media manager, general news reporter, veterans and culture reporter, senior reporter, deputy editor, and now serves as the editor in chief.</p> <p>From March 2023 until July 2024, James was the editor of Army Times before becoming the managing editor of Military Times. He returned to Task & Purpose as the Editor in Chief in August 2024.</p> <p>James has covered a variety of topics, from long-form reporting on veterans’ access to healthcare in rural communities to the Department of Veterans Affairs medical marijuana policy, and has published enterprise pieces on longstanding issues like the Feres Doctrine and the now-repealed Widows Tax.</p> <p>James served in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent from 2008 until 2012 and deployed twice to Helmand province, Afghanistan with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment.</p> </div> </div> <div class="author-page-education mb-8 recurrent-author-page-content"> <h3 class="author-page-heading font-primary font-bold text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-xl mb-5"> Education </h3> <div class="author-page-section-content font-primary text-secondary-900 text-lg leading-xl mb-5"><p>James graduated the University of California Santa Cruz in 2014 with a degree in modern literature.</p> </div> </div> <div class="author-page-highlights lg:mb-8 recurrent-author-page-content"> <h3 class="author-page-heading font-primary font-bold text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-xl mb-5"> Highlights </h3> <div class="author-page-section-content font-primary text-secondary-900 text-lg leading-xl mb-5"><ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">Expertise in culture writing and personality-driven features on issues and topics of interest and importance to the military and veteran community.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">James’ 2018-2019 series on the </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/feres-doctrine-military-medical-malpractice/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Feres Doctrine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, a 1950 Supreme Court ruling that </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/fort-campbell-soldier-medical-malpractice/"><span style="font-weight: 400">bars service members</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> from </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-misdiagnosed-cancer-2-years/"><span style="font-weight: 400">suing the government</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> for </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jordan-way-feres-doctrine/"><span style="font-weight: 400">negligence </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">and </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/katie-blanchard-feres-doctrine/"><span style="font-weight: 400">wrongdoing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, resulted in heightened interest and a renewed effort to see the precedent overturned.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">His exclusive on the Afghanistan War documentary </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-afghanistan-documentary-combat-obscura/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Combat Obscura</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> was picked up by several national outlets and led </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/combat-obscura-theaters/"><span style="font-weight: 400">the Marine Corps to drop their threats of a lawsuit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> against the filmmaker.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">James’ </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-tax-cut-widows/"><span style="font-weight: 400">reporting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=368449270438215"><span style="font-weight: 400">made national headlines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> and reinvigorated a campaign to change the underlying issue, the so-called </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/opinion-widows-tax/"><span style="font-weight: 400">Widows Tax</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400">On the lighter side of things, James largely built up Task & Purpose’s entertainment beat with regular </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/1917-world-war-i-movie-review/"><span style="font-weight: 400">reviews</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/real-life-green-beret-character-call-of-duty/"><span style="font-weight: 400">profiles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, and a recurring column entitled </span><span style="font-weight: 400">That One Scene</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="more-from-author-wrapper full-bleed bg-gray-light py-16"> <div class="container mx-auto"> <h3 class="more-from-heading font-primary font-bold flag-heading mb-8 sm:px-5 flex items-center">More from James Clark <span class="ml-3 text-base text-gray-600"></span></h3> <div class="grid grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-x-5 gap-y-5 px-5 md:px-0 more-from-author-cards-container"> <div class="mb-3"> <div class="card-post more-from-author-post"> <a class="card-post-image-link block 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