Alissa J. Rubin  Alissa Johannsen Rubin is an American journalist who spent much of her career covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. She began covering for "The New York Times" in 2007. Previously, she was a correspondent for the "Los Angeles Times" from 1997. In August 2007, Rubin was named deputy bureau chief in the Baghdad bureau of "The New York Times". In 2009, Rubin became the chief of TheTimes's bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan. Rubin was seriously injured in a helicopter crash covering the war in northern Iraq on August 16, 2014. She suffered multiple fractures but was able to dictate a report of the accident. The crash killed the helicopter's pilot and injured others, including Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of Iraq's parliament. Rubin won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for "thoroughly reported and movingly written accounts giving voice to Afghan women who were forced to endure unspeakable cruelties." In 2015, she won the John Chancellor Award from the Columbia Journalism School for her career of 35 years reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. Rubin won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1992 writing about the reality versus politics of abortion in the 1990s.