James Glanz is an American

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 journalist who was appointed as Baghdad

Baghdad

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 bureau chief of The New York Times

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in 2007.

Glanz joined the Times in 1999. Articles he wrote with Eric Lipton and others on the World Trade Center

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 were chosen as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize

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 in explanatory journalism in 2002. Articles Lipton and Glanz wrote were also a part of the Nation Challenged package that won a Pulitzer for Public Service in 2002.

Glanz holds a Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University

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