Gordon Lubold is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who has covered the military and national security for more than 25 years. He is now a national security reporter with NBC News in Washington. Prior to that he was White House national security and Pentagon reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining The Journal, he launched and authored three different national security newsletters for three outlets, including “Situation Report,” emailed to and read by 150,000 readers each morning. He has covered conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and across the Middle East and Central Asia, and has reported on military matters in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and East Asia. He won the Pulitzer prize in 2025 for national reporting, contributing to a Wall Street Journal team prize for a series of stories on Elon Musk.
