Member Highlight

Roy Gutman has been a foreign affairs journalist in Washington and abroad for four decades. Currently bureau chief for Southern Europe and the Gulf for McClatchy newspapers, he spent more than twenty years at Newsday, 12 at Reuters, and briefer stints at Newsweek and UPI. While Newsday’s Europe correspondent, his reports on “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the first documented accounts of Serb-run concentration camps, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (1993), the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Hal Boyle award of the Overseas Press Club, the Heywood Broun Award of the Newspaper Guild, a special Human Rights in Media award of the International League for Human Rights, and other honors.  At Newsweek, In 2002, he was a co-winner of the Edgar Allen Poe award of the White House Correspondents’ Association, and in 2003, the National Headliners First Prize for Magazines and the Society of Publishers in Asia awards for excellence in magazines and reporting.
He is the author of Banana Diplomacy  (1988) and A Witness to Genocide  (1993), and co-editor, with David Rieff and Anthony Dworkin, of  Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (second edition, 2007). His latest book, How We Missed the Story, Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, was published in February, 2008. Named one of “50 visionaries who are changing your world” by the Utne Reader, Nov.-Dec 2008; awarded honorary citizenship and a key to the city of Sarajevo, April 2010. He was a member of the McClatchy team that won a Polk award for war reporting (Syria) in 2013. He lives in Istanbul, with a U.S. residence in McLean, Virginia.