Markos Kounalakis

Markos Kounalakis is President of The Washington Monthly magazine.

Markos is a print and network broadcast journalist and author who covered wars and revolutions, both civil and technological. He worked as the NBC Radio and Mutual News Moscow correspondent and covered the fall of the Soviet Union as well as the war in Afghanistan. He reported the overthrow of communism for Newsweek in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, the rise of both democratic institutions in Hungary and of ethnic strife in Yugoslavia. He was based in Rome and Vienna and later ran the magazine's Prague satellite bureau for over a year. Kounalakis has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The International Herald-Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and many other regional and international newspapers and magazines.

He has written two books, Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton (Beyond Words Publishing, 1993) and Beyond Spin: The Power of Strategic Corporate Journalism (co-author, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999).