Friedman joined the London bureau of United Press International after completing his master 's degree . He was dispatched a year later to Beirut , where he lived from June 1979 to May 1981 while covering the Lebanon Civil War . He was hired by '' The New York Times '' as a reporter in 1981 and re-dispatched to Beirut at the start of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon . His coverage of the war , particularly the Sabra and Shatila massacre , won him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ( shared with Loren Jenkins of '' The Washington Post '' ) . Alongside David K. Shipler he also won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Thomas Friedman