Ellen Barry (journalist)

Ellen Barry (born April 11, 1971) is New England Bureau Chief of 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^[1] to 2017. Previously she was its Moscow Bureau Chief from March 2011 to August 2013.^[2]

Ellen Barry was born on April 11, 1971, in Tarrytown, New York.^[3]

Barry is a 1993 graduate of Yale University 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.^[3]

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 .^{[3] [4]} 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.^{[5] [6]} 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.

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