Pamela Constable is an American reporter and editor at The Washington Post. She has specialized in coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pamela Groom Constable | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ethel Walker School Greenwich Country Day School |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Employer | The Washington Post |
| Known for | Coverage of Afghanistan |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Ashida (m. 1981–div.) Arturo Arms Valenzuela (m. September 1986 – div.) |
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Constable attended Brown University. Her first paid job in journalism began in 1974 at The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland.[4] In the 1980s she was a correspondent for The Baltimore Sun and then The Boston Globe, covering Latin American affairs.[2]
Constable was The Washington Post's bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2019 and previously served as the Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1999 and 2005.[5]
She is the author of two books about South Asia and the U.S. intervention there, Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia (2004) and Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself (2011), as well as the 1991 political history A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet with Arturo Valenzuela.[5][6]
Personal life
Constable has practiced animal rescue on her foreign assignments, including a donkey and several dogs.[4] Her father-in-law was the bishop of the Methodist Church of Chile.[2]