Michael Slackman is an American

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

''. He is the paper's International Editor.

Life

Michael Slackman is of Jewish descent and graduated from the

Northeastern University School of Journalism Northeastern University School of Journalism is the journalism school of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to the school's six undergraduate and two graduate degree programs, Northeastern's flagship cooperative educatio ...

. He was the Cairo Bureau Chief, for the ''Los Angeles Times'', and the Moscow Bureau Chief for ''Newsday''. He was ''The New York Times'' Berlin bureau chief from June 2009 to June 2010 and the

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

bureau chief from 2002 to 2009. He won a 1997 National Award for Education Reporting. ''Newsday'' won the 1997

Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment. It has been awarded since 1953 under several names: *From 1953 to 1963: Pulitzer Pri ...

, for its coverage of

TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31pm. Eastern Daylight Time, EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. K ...

, and Slackman was part of the team."The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Spot News Reporting"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26. With reprints of 38 works (''Newsday'' articles July 19 to July 20, 1996).

References

External links

Charlierose.com"Michael Slackman"
Sean Leviashvili's blog, May 25, 2009 Living people The New York Times masthead editors Northeastern University alumni Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-journalist-stub