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Ethan Bronner (born 1954) is a senior editor at Bloomberg News following 17 years at ''The New York Times'', most recently as deputy national editor.


Biography

Bronner is a graduate of
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's College of Letters and the
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Graduate School of Journalism. He began his journalistic career at
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in 1980, reporting from London, Madrid, Brussels and Jerusalem. From 1985 until 1997, he worked for ''
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.'' He started as a general assignment and urban affairs reporter. He went on to be the paper's
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and legal affairs correspondent in Washington, D.C. and then its Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem.''Jewish Star'': "Halpern: No conflict of interest - I'm thinking" by Micah D. Halpern
February 12, 2010/ 28 Shvat 5770
He then accepted a position with ''
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'', where he was the paper's national education correspondent from 1997 to 1999 and its education editor from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he transferred to the paper's investigative unit which focused on the
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. A series of articles on
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that Bronner helped edit during that time was awarded the 2001
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for explanatory journalism. He then served as assistant editorial page editor and in 2004, he became its deputy foreign editor. From 2008 to 2012 he was ''The Times''
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bureau chief. In 2010, '' Electronic Intifada'' publicly revealed that Bronner's son was serving in the IDF as Bronner was covering the
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, raising questions of bias and
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in his work. The paper's public editor recommended he be reassigned for the duration of his son's service. The paper's executive editor rejected the recommendation and expressed full faith in Bronner's work. He rotated out of Jerusalem in 2012 and spent a year as the NYT's national legal reporter, then became its deputy national editor. In 2015, he accepted a position as senior editor at Bloomberg News where he edits and writes investigative and analytic articles dealing mostly with international affairs. Bronner is the author of ''Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America'' (Norton, 1989), which was chosen by
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as one of the 25 best books of 1989.


Personal

Bronner and his wife Naomi Kehati, an Israeli-born psychologist, live near New York. They have two sons, Eli and Gabriel. His son served in the
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.


Bibliography

* ''Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America''. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.


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