Helene Cooper

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She joined the paper in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor, before becoming diplomatic correspondent in 2006 and White House correspondent in 2009. <a class="user-action">More<i class="icon caret-icon"></i></a> </h2> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="collection-description"> <p>Helene Cooper is a Pentagon correspondent with The New York Times. She joined the paper in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor, before becoming diplomatic correspondent in 2006 and White House correspondent in 2009.</p> <p>In 2015, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, for her work in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic. She is also the winner of of the George Polk award for health reporting (2015) and the Overseas Press Club Award (2015).</p> <p>She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood” (Simon and Schuster, 2008), a memoir of growing up in Monrovia, Liberia, as well as “Madame President: The Extraordinary Story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf” (Simon and Schuster, 2017).</p> </div> <div class="stream-supplemental"> <div id="main-tabs" class="main-tabs tabs"> <nav class="tab-navigation"> <ul class="tab-menu" role="tablist"> <li class="tab active " aria-controls="latest-panel" role="tab" tabindex="0" aria-selected="true" data-name="latest"> <a id="tab-link-1" class="" href="#latest-panel" tabindex="-1">Latest</a> </li> <li class="tab search-tab" aria-controls="search-panel" role="tab" tabindex="0" aria-selected="true" data-name="search"> <a id="tab-link-2" class="search-link" href="#search-panel" tabindex="-1"><i class="icon sprite-icon search-icon"></i><span class="link-text">Search</span> <form class="search-tab-form" role="search"> <div class="control"> <div class="label-container visually-hidden"> <label id="search-tab-label" for="search-tab-input">Search</label> </div> <div class="field-container"> <input id="search-tab-input" name="search-tab-input" type="text" class="search-tab-input text" placeholder="Search" aria-labelledby="search-tab-label" size="8" autocomplete="off"/> <button type="button" class="button clear-button hidden" tabindex="-1" aria-describedby="clear-search-input"><i class="icon"></i><span id="clear-search-input" class="visually-hidden">Clear this text input</span></button> </div> </div> </form> </a> </li> </ul> </nav> <section id="latest-panel" class="tab-panel latest-panel " aria-labelledby="tab-link-1" role="tabpanel" aria-expanded="false" tabindex="-1"> <h2 class="section-heading visually-hidden">Latest Articles</h2> <div class="stream" data-total-pages="265"> <ol class="story-menu theme-stream initial-set"> <li id="story-id-100000006569793"><article class="story theme-summary " itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle"> <div class="story-body"> <a class="story-link" data-rref="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190620221837/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/politics/drone-shot-down-iran-us.html"> <div class="story-meta"> <h2 class="headline" itemprop="headline"> What We Know About Iran Shooting Down a U.S. Drone </h2> <p class="summary" itemprop="description">The two countries disagree about where the drone was shot down: over international waters or in Iranian airspace.</p> <p class="byline" itemprop="author">By Helene Cooper</p> </div> <div class="wide-thumb"> <img role="presentation" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190620221837im_/https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/20/us/politics/whatweknow/whatweknow-mediumThreeByTwo210.jpg" alt="" itemprop="thumbnailUrl"/> </div> </a> </div> <footer class="story-footer"> <time class="dateline" datetime="2019-06-20" itemprop="dateModified" content="2019-06-20">June 20, 2019</time> </footer> </article> </li> <li id="story-id-100000006569257"><article class="story theme-summary no-thumb " itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle"> <div class="story-body"> <a class="story-link" data-rref="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190620221837/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/world/middleeast/iran-us-drone.html"> <div class="story-meta"> <h2 class="headline" itemprop="headline"> After Iran’s Drone Attack, Trump Says This Country ‘Will Not Stand for It’ </h2> <p class="summary" itemprop="description">Iran’s destruction of the high-altitude American drone surprised some American Defense Department officials, who say it was in international airspace, an assertion Iran disputes.</p> <p class="byline" itemprop="author">By Helene Cooper, Michael D. 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