Barton Gellman
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Barton David Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize
winning American journalist
, blogger and bestselling author.
, Gellman resigned in February 2010 to concentrate on book and magazine writing. He now holds positions as contributing Editor At Large of Time magazine, Lecturer and Author in Residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
and Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice
.
At Time, Gellman's work has included cover stories on extremist domestic militias and on FBI Director Robert Mueller
. He also writes Time's CounterSpy blog on digital privacy and security. Before accepting the appointment at Princeton, Gellman was a senior research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law
.,.
In 2008, Gellman published the bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named among the 100 Notable Books of 2008 by The New York Times
. Gellman is now helping adapt the book for an HBO miniseries.
"Angler" grew out of a series of articles with partner Jo Becker on Dick Cheney in The Washington Post, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002.
Gellman has previously been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, in 1999 and 2004. Other professional honors include two Overseas Press Club awards, the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Gerald Ford Foundation Prize for reporting on national defense, the SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award and the Jesse Laventhol Award for deadline writing from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Gellman broke important stories about the use of intelligence leading to the war in Iraq
, including the first public reporting on the secretive White House Iraq Group
.
In previous postings, Gellman covered Washington DC courts, including the trial of former mayor Marion Barry; was Pentagon correspondent during the 1991 Persian Gulf War
, the U.S. intervention in Somalia and the social upheavals relating to the status of gays in the military and the assignment of women to combat roles; became Jerusalem bureau chief in 1994, covering peace negotiations, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
, and the ascent of Benjamin Netanyahu
; returned to Washington as diplomatic correspondent, covering Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the collapse of the United Nations Special Commission
(UNSCOM) effort to disarm Iraq; and moved to New York in 1999 to take up the special projects role.
Gellman graduated summa cum laude
from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
at Princeton University
and was a Rhodes Scholar
, earning a master's degree
in politics from University College, Oxford
. He returned to Princeton for two semesters as Ferris Professor of Journalism in 2002 and 2009, teaching courses called "The Literature of Fact" and "Investigative Reporting.".
In addition to the Cheney book, Gellman is author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power, a well-received 1985 study of the post-World War II "containment" doctrine and its architect, George F. Kennan
.
, and Marcia Jacobs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, he lives with partner Dafna Linzer
in New York City
. A previous marriage to Tracy Ellen Sivitz ended in divorce. He is the father of four children: Abigail, Michael, Lily and Benjamin Gellman.
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning American journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, blogger and bestselling author.
Career
After 21 years on the staff of The Washington PostThe Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, Gellman resigned in February 2010 to concentrate on book and magazine writing. He now holds positions as contributing Editor At Large of Time magazine, Lecturer and Author in Residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...
and Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice
Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on issues involving democracy and justice...
.
At Time, Gellman's work has included cover stories on extremist domestic militias and on FBI Director Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III is the 6th and current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation .-Early life:...
. He also writes Time's CounterSpy blog on digital privacy and security. Before accepting the appointment at Princeton, Gellman was a senior research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
.,.
In 2008, Gellman published the bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency is a book by Washington Post investigative reporter Barton Gellman, published in 2008. Presenting information in a narrative fashion, Gellman asserts that United States Vice President Dick Cheney misled Republican leaders about the threat of Iraq before the...
, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named among the 100 Notable Books of 2008 by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. Gellman is now helping adapt the book for an HBO miniseries.
"Angler" grew out of a series of articles with partner Jo Becker on Dick Cheney in The Washington Post, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good...
. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002.
Gellman has previously been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, in 1999 and 2004. Other professional honors include two Overseas Press Club awards, the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Gerald Ford Foundation Prize for reporting on national defense, the SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award and the Jesse Laventhol Award for deadline writing from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Gellman broke important stories about the use of intelligence leading to the war in Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
, including the first public reporting on the secretive White House Iraq Group
White House Iraq Group
The White House Iraq Group was the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the public....
.
In previous postings, Gellman covered Washington DC courts, including the trial of former mayor Marion Barry; was Pentagon correspondent during the 1991 Persian Gulf War
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
, the U.S. intervention in Somalia and the social upheavals relating to the status of gays in the military and the assignment of women to combat roles; became Jerusalem bureau chief in 1994, covering peace negotiations, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv...
, and the ascent of Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
; returned to Washington as diplomatic correspondent, covering Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the collapse of the United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Special Commission was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War...
(UNSCOM) effort to disarm Iraq; and moved to New York in 1999 to take up the special projects role.
Gellman graduated summa cum laude
Latin honors
Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and in many countries of continental Europe, though some institutions also use the English translation of these...
from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school has granted undergraduate A.B. degrees since 1930 and graduate degrees since 1948...
at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and was a Rhodes Scholar
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
, earning a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
in politics from University College, Oxford
University College, Oxford
.University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...
. He returned to Princeton for two semesters as Ferris Professor of Journalism in 2002 and 2009, teaching courses called "The Literature of Fact" and "Investigative Reporting.".
In addition to the Cheney book, Gellman is author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power, a well-received 1985 study of the post-World War II "containment" doctrine and its architect, George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...
.
Personal and family history
The son of Stuart Gellman of Tucson, ArizonaTucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
, and Marcia Jacobs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, he lives with partner Dafna Linzer
Dafna Linzer
Dafna Linzer is a Canadian-American journalist with ProPublica, a non-profit news agency.From 2004 to 2008, Linzer was a national security reporter for The Washington Post, covering intelligence and nonproliferation...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. A previous marriage to Tracy Ellen Sivitz ended in divorce. He is the father of four children: Abigail, Michael, Lily and Benjamin Gellman.
Books
- Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. ISBN 0-275-91737-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-275-91737-1 (13). [Hardcover ed.] New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985. ISBN 0-275-91805-X (10). ISBN 978-0-275-91805-7 (13). [Paperback ed.]
- Angler: The Cheney Vice PresidencyAngler: The Cheney Vice PresidencyAngler: The Cheney Vice Presidency is a book by Washington Post investigative reporter Barton Gellman, published in 2008. Presenting information in a narrative fashion, Gellman asserts that United States Vice President Dick Cheney misled Republican leaders about the threat of Iraq before the...
. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. ISBN 1594201862 (10). ISBN 978-1594201868 (13). [Hardcover ed.]
External links
- "Bart Gellman" biography at The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
. February 11, 2005. Accessed July 29, 2007. - Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power book description at Greenwood Publishing Group. Accessed July 29, 2007. (Paperback ed.)
- "Interview: Barton Gellman". Conducted on January 29, 2003 for The War Behind Closed Doors. Program first broadcast on Frontline, Public Broadcasting ServicePublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
, February 20, 2003. Accessed July 29, 2007. - "Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist to Discuss U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Pre-September 11". Press Release announcing lecture by Gellman at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
in 2004. Accessed July 29, 2007. - "National Security Beat: Barton Gellman". 2006 Washington Post biography. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- Recent Washington Post articles written by Barton Gellman. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- Barton Gellman's interview with The Young Turks.