Ellen Barry is New England Bureau Chief of ''
The New York Times
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''. She was the paper's Chief International Correspondent from 2017 to 2019, and
South Asia
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Bureau Chief in
New Delhi
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,
India
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, from 2013 to 2017. Previously she was its
Moscow
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Bureau Chief from March 2011 to August 2013.
Early life and education
Ellen Barry was born on April 11, 1971, in
Tarrytown
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, New York.
Barry is a 1993 graduate of
Yale University
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with a B.A. in English, where she was also a reporter and editor for the ''
Yale Daily News''. At Yale, she won the Wallace Non-Fiction Prize and the Wright Memorial Prize for best essay by a senior in 1993.
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Career
Ellen Barry began her career as a journalist in 1993 when she was a managing board member of the ''Yale Daily News''. From 1993 to 1995, Barry worked for ''The Moscow Times
''The Moscow Times'' is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper. It was in print in Russia from 1992 until 2017 and was distributed free of charge at places frequented by English-speaking tourists and expatriates s ...
'' as a staff reporter. In 1996 she began working for the ''Boston Phoenix
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'' as a feature writer. In 1999 she began working for ''The Boston Globe
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''. In the years of 2004 to 2006, Barry worked as the Atlanta
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bureau chief for the ''Los Angeles Times
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''.[
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Awards and recognition
In 2010 Barry and her ''Times'' colleague Clifford J. Levy
Clifford J. Levy (born June 15, 1967 in New Rochelle, New York) is deputy publisher of two Times company publications, the Wirecutter and The Athletic. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and considered one of the main architects of the digital ...
won a George Polk Award
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and the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on " corruption and abuse of power in Russia
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" for the "Above the Law" series.[
She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002 for feature writing and won the ]American Society of Newspaper Editors
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Distinguished Writing Award for Non-Deadline Writing.mental health
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. In 2020 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing for "The Jungle Prince of Delhi".
References
External links
Official Twitter account
Ellen Barry
''The New York Times''
''The New York Times''
''The New York Times''
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The New York Times writers
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners
Living people
American women journalists
Yale College alumni
1971 births
21st-century American women
The Moscow Times