Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ethan Bronner, Deputy Foreign Editor - New York Times

War and Terror: How The New York Times Covers Today's Big Stories in the Middle East

Ethan Bronner has been deputy foreign editor of The New York Times since early 2004. Together with the foreign editor, he oversees the paper’s 43 foreign correspondents and its foreign report, which appears in the first half of the first section every day. He has a special emphasis on the Middle East.  Previously, Mr. Bronner was assistant editorial page editor where he concentrated on foreign affairs and education.  He was the paper’s education editor from 1999 until 2001, and a national education correspondent from 1997 until 1999. In March 2008, he is moving to Jerusalem for several years to become bureau chief.

Before joining The Times, Mr. Bronner was with The Boston Globe for 12 years.  He was Supreme Court and legal affairs correspondent in Washington, D.C., and Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem.

He began his career at Reuters in 1980, reporting from Jerusalem, London, Madrid and Brussels.

Throughout the autumn of 2001, Mr. Bronner worked as an editor in The Times’s investigative unit, focusing on the attacks of Sept. 11.  A series of articles on Al Qaeda that he helped edit was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. 

Mr. Bronner is the author of “Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America,” which was chosen by The New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1989. The book was reissued in October 2007 by Union Square Press.

Mr. Bronner received a B.A. in Letters from Wesleyan University and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.  He is a former member of the board of trustees at Wesleyan and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Born in 1954, he is married and has two sons.