External links
- Official Twitter account Ellen Barry
- "Above the Law" series, The New York Times
- The Jungle Prince of Delhi, The New York Times
- A Maine Paper Mill's Unexpected Savior: China
- "Year of Dead Eyes" , The New York Times
Ellen Barry | |
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| Born | April 11, 1971 Tarrytown, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Education | Yale University (BA) |
| Notable awards | George Polk Award (2010) |
Ellen Barry (born April 11, 1971) is a reporter for The New York Times . She was the paper's chief international correspondent from 2017 to 2019, and South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi, India, from 2013 to 2017. [1] She previously served as the Times' Moscow bureau chief from March 2011 to August 2013 and then served as its New England bureau chief. [2] She now covers mental health. [3]
Ellen Barry was born on April 11, 1971, in Tarrytown, New York. [4] She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1993. While at Yale she was a reporter and editor for the Yale Daily News, and also won the Wallace Non-Fiction Prize and the Wright Memorial Prize for best essay by a senior. [4]
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 as a staff reporter. In 1996 she began working for the Boston Phoenix as a feature writer. In 1999 she began working for The Boston Globe . In the years of 2004 to 2006, Barry worked as the Atlanta bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times . [4] [5] She joined The New York Times as a Metro reporter in January 2007 and became the Moscow correspondent for The Times in June 2008. [2]
In 2010 Barry and her Times colleague Clifford J. Levy won a George Polk Award and the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on "corruption and abuse of power in Russia" for the "Above the Law" series. [2]
She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002 for feature writing and won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for Non-Deadline Writing. [6] [7] In 2004 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for beat reporting on mental health. In 2020 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing for "The Jungle Prince of Delhi" on the Mahal family.
