![]() ![]() ![]() In 2004, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement and the honorary title Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Friedman’s 2005 book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). In 1984, Friedman was transferred from Beirut to Jerusalem, where he served as Israel bureau chief until 1988. He joined The New York Times in 1981 and was appointed Beirut bureau chief in 1982. In 2005, Friedman was elected as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau, and before that he was the chief White House correspondent. He became the paper’s foreign affairs columnist in 1995. ![]() Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. ![]()
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