Global Writers

New York

Paul Krugman - A Princeton professor of

economics and international affairs,
columnist for The Times and in 2008
Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Science for his analysis of
trade patterns and location of economic
activity.

Thomas L. Friedman - Foreign affairs

columnist and three time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for his commentary and
international reporting. Mr. Friedman is
the author of “The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the 21st Century”, which won
the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial
Times Business Book of the Year award.

Andrew Ross Sorkin - chief merger and

acquisitions reporter and columnist. Mr.
Sorkin is the leading voice about Wall
Street and corporate America, is also the
editor of DealBook, an online daily
financial report. He won a Gerald Loeb
Award, the highest honour in business
 journalism. Mr. Sorkin began writing for
the times in 1995 before he graduated
from high school.

London

Roger Cohen - IHT editor-at-large. Mr.

Cohen writes ‘Globalist’, a twice-weekly
column on European and International
affairs. He also assumes the role of the New
York Times International Writer-at-Large.
Mr. Cohen has been bureau chief in Berlin,
a Paris correspondent, the Balkan bureau
chief based in Zagreb and European
economics correspondent fro the NYT.

Paris

Liz Alderman - Liz Alderman is the chief

business correspondent for the IHT in
Paris, where she writes about European
economics, finance and business. Prior to
that, she was an assistant business editor
for The New York Times, managing and
editing coverage of Wall Street, the
financial crisis and a range of economic
issues for Business Day.
Shanghai

David Barboza - writes primarily for the

Business section but also writes often for
the culture section about art, film,
television and dance in China. He covered
the Enron scandal for The Times and was
named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in
2002. In 2005, he was one of five Times
reporters awarded the Gerald Loeb Award
for Deadline Writing about Lenovo's
acquisition of I.B.M.'s personal computer
business.

Beirut

Anthony Shadid - is a foreign

correspondent for The New York Times. He
has won the Pulitzer Prize for International
Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010. Over a
15-year career, he has reported from most
countries in the Middle East.
Business & Finance
Gretchen C. Morgenson covers Wall
Street for The New York Times and writes
the Market Watch column for the Sunday
Money & Business section. She joined The
Times as assistant business and financial
editor in May 1998. She was previously
assistant managing editor at Forbes
magazine. In March 1996 she rejoined the
magazine after serving as the press
secretary for the Forbes for President
campaign starting in September 1995. She
was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for
her trenchant and incisive Wall Street
coverage.

Andrew Ross Sorkin - chief merger and

acquisitions reporter and columnist. Mr.
Sorkin is the leading voice about Wall
Street and corporate America, is also the
editor of DealBook, an online daily
financial report. He won a Gerald Loeb
Award, the highest honour in business
journalism. Mr. Sorkin began writing for
the times in 1995 before he graduated
from high school.
Susanne Craig - joined The New York
Times as a reporter for Business Day and
DealBook in August 2010. She came to The
Times from The Wall Street Journal where
she played a leading role in the paper’s
Wall Street coverage. At the Journal, Ms.
Craig had covered the Wall Street beat
since 2000 and was the lead reporter in the
paper’s coverage of the collapse of Lehman
Brothers and Merrill Lynch. She was a key
player on the team that was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
in 2009 for coverage of the financial
crisis.

Peter Lattman - joined The New York

Times as a reporter for DealBook in August
2010. Previously, Mr. Lattman had been a
reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Most
recently, he covered the private equity
beat, playing a prominent role in the
Journal's coverage of the 2008 financial
crisis and the Madoff case. Before that he
was the lead writer for the Journal’s
nascent Law Blog.

Liz Aderman Liz Alderman is the chief

business correspondent for the IHT in
 Paris, where she writes about European
economics, finance and business. Prior to
that, she was an assistant business editor
for The New York Times, managing and
editing coverage of Wall Street, the
financial crisis and a range of economic
issues for Business Day.

Tom Redburn - was named managing

editor of the IHT in December 2008. He
manages the daily report in Europe and
oversees structural and budgetary issues,
while also guiding European financial
coverage and supervising the Europe-
based business correspondents of The New
York Times and the IHT. Mr.
Redburn became deputy business editor
for The New York Times in May 2004.
Previously, he was technology editor from
February 2003 to April 2004.

Culture
Alice Rawsthorn, Design critic. Ms.
Rawsthorn writes a weekly column on
innovations in design and its impact on our
lives. A regular broadcaster, she also writes
the Object Lesson column for the New York
Times Magazine. From 2001 to 2006, she
was director of the Design Museum in
London and before an award winning
journalist for the Financial Times. She is a
member of the World Economic Forum’s
Global Agenda Council for Design.

Mark Bittman - Mark Bittman is an

Opinion columnist and the Times
magazine’s food columnist; his Minimalist
column ran in the Dining section of The
Times for more than 13 years. In 2009, Mr.
Bittman, who has been urging Americans
to change the way we eat for decades,
published “Food Matters,” which explored
the crucial connections among food, health
and the environment.

Anthony Tommasini – He is the chief

classical music critic of The New York
Times. Mr. Tommasini, who is also a
pianist and an author, joined The Times in
1997 and was promoted to his current
position in 2000. Before joining The Times,
he covered music and theater for The
Boston Globe. He has also written about
dance, jazz, rap, books and AIDS. He
graduated from Yale University in 1970,
and later earned a master's degree from
the Yale School of Music and a doctor of
musical arts degree from Boston
University.

Ben Sisario – Ben Sisario is an American

journalist. He is a reporter at the New York
Times, covering music and culture, and is
the author of Doolittle, a book about the
Pixies album of the same title. He is also a
contributor to Blender magazine and the
New York public radio station WFUV.

Jon Pareles – He is an American journalist

who is the chief popular music critic in the
arts section of the New York Times. He
played jazz flute and piano, and graduated
from Yale University with a degree in
music. In the 1970s he was an associate
editor of CrawDaddy! and in the 1980s an
associate editor at Rolling Stone and the
music editor at The Village Voice. He
currently reviews popular music in the arts
section of the New York Times..
Education
Jodi Rudoren - Recently named education
editor, Jodi was a Deputy Metropolitan
Editor at the New York Times, where she
has worked for 10 years. As a reporter for
both The Times and the Los Angeles Times,
Jodi has covered immigration, education,
City Hall, the Columbine killings, the
Amadou Diallo shooting, the largest
municipal bankruptcy in history, and the
2004 presidential campaign; for five years,
she was The Times’ Chicago bureau chief.

John Haskins – Mr. Haskins began his

newspaper editing career at The
Minneapolis Star Tribune and moved on to
Newsday before joining The New York
Times in 1990. Since then, he has worked
on the national desk, graphics desk, the
Web site, technology desk, business desk,
news desk, real estate and Escapes before
joining the IHT as Associate Editor. A
native of Iowa, he is a graduate of the
University of Missouri School of
Journalism. He leads the coverage of the
IHT Education Section launched on
September 6th 2010.
Sam Dillon – He covers issues affecting
America’s public schools and its colleges
and universities, his second educational
assignment during his 13-year career at
the New York Times. During the early
1990’s, he covered the New York City
school system. A two-time Pulitzer prize
winner, Mr. Dillon has spent much of his
journalism career covering Latin America.
As the Times’ Mexico City bureau chief
from 1995 through 2000, he was one of
four reporters who won the 1998 Pulitzer
Prize for a series profiling the corrosive
effects of drug corruption.

DD Guttenplan - is currently education

writer for the International Herald
Tribune, he also blogs for the Nation and
the Guardian.. His reporting on the 1990
Happy Land Social Club fire in the Bronx
won a Page One award from the New York
Newspaper Guild and his investigative
reporting on New York city’s ineffectual
fire code was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize. D.D. Guttenplan was educated in the
Philadelphia and Memphis public school
systems and has a degree in philosophy
from Columbia University, a degree in
 English Literature from Cambridge
University, and a doctorate in History from
the University of London.

Jane Karr - is “Education Life” editor at

The New York Times, where she has
worked since 1988. She supervises the
quarterly magazine: conceptualizing,
assigning, editing all copy, and
coordinating photography and art
direction.

Fashion & Style

Suzy Menkes, Fashion editor. Frank,
fearless and free from editorial constraints,
Suzy Menkes has built a reputation as a
sharp fashion critic. Ms Menkes also
reports in the IHT’s financial pages on the
jousting of fashion tycoons and the facts
and figures behind the company results.
She holds the Legion d’Honneur in France
and a British OBE

Cathy Horyn Author of the ‘On the

Runway’ blog, she has been The New York
Times fashion critic since 1999. Previously
worked for Vanity Fair magazine as
contributing editor, covering fashion and
entertainment. Ms. Horyn received the
2001 Eugenia Sheppard Award for
fashion writing.

Sally Singer has been selected as the new

editor of T: The New York Times Style
Magazine, and took over the helm on July 5.
Ms. Singer has been at Vogue between1999
and 2010, where she oversaw the fashion
news and features departments. Earlier
she was fashion director at New York
Magazine, style director of Elle, and the
commissioning editor for features at
British Vogue.

Bruce Pask has been the Men’s Fashion

Director for T Magazine for more than five
years. Bruce has served as a fashion editor
and stylist at notable fashion publications
for almost two decades, holding fashion
directorial posts at GQ and Cargo
magazines. His extensive styling work with
Annie Leibovitz included numerous
 celebrity covers for Vanity Fair and
memorable advertising campaigns for The
Sopranos. He has also styled a number of
seasonal catalogs for top luxury retail
stores in New York. His debut as a costume
designer for the stage was for Joe
Mantello’s Broadway revival of Noel
Coward’s Design for Living.

Ethel Park has a creative passion in

fashion styling and photography that is
fueled by her seven years working as an
editor at Vogue, first with its Editor at
Large André Leon Talley and then with the
Fashion Director, Tonne Goodman,
producing and executing the majority of
Vogue¹’s celebrity cover shoots and
fashion stories. Ethel is the Director of
European Fashion Collections at T
Magazine.

Fine Arts
Souren Melikian is the IHT’s world
renowned Art editor. His unique coverage
of the art market combines the perspective
 of an avid collector and cultural historian.
His columns are read regularly by
international art professionals and
collectors around the globe.

Roberta Smith is an art critic living in New

York and has written for the New York
Times since 1986. She is 2003 winner of
the College of Art Association’s Fran Jewett
Mather Award for criticism.

Carol Vogel, art reporter for The New York

Times, writes the weekly “Inside Art”
column, and contributes news stories that
pertain to all areas of the art community, in
the U.S. and abroad, ranging from the
auction world to the changing faces of
museums.

Global Issues
Alison Smale - She is the executive editor
of the IHT, the global edition of The New
York Times. As such, she organizes the
day’s news report and plans coverage for
the days ahead and is constantly involved
 in mapping out the global strategy for The
New York Times Media Group.

Katherine Bennhold - Staff

Correspondent An economist by training,
Katrin Bennhold reports for the IHT on
French politics and international affairs.
Recently, she has also become one of the
main contributors to the Female Factor
series on the status of women in the early
21st century. Ms. Bennhold joined the IHT
in March 2004, after spending three years
as senior economics writer for Bloomberg
News in Paris. Prior to that she worked as
a presenter and producer for Bloomberg
Television in London. Ms. Bennhold holds a
Masters in economics from the London
School of Economics.

Opinion
Paul Krugman - A Princeton professor of
economics and international affairs,
columnist for The Times and in 2008
Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Science for his analysis of
trade patterns and location of economic
activity.

Thomas L. Friedman - Foreign affairs

columnist and three time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for his commentary and
international reporting. Mr. Friedman is
the author of “The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the 21st Century”, which won
the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial
Times Business Book of the Year award.

Roger Cohen - IHT editor-at-large. Mr.

Cohen writes ‘Globalist’, a twice-weekly
column on European and International
affairs. He also assumes the role of the New
York Times International Writer-at-Large.
Mr. Cohen has been bureau chief in Berlin,
a Paris correspondent, the Balkan bureau
chief based in Zagreb and European
economics correspondent fro the NYT.

Nicholas D. Kristof – Op-Ed columnist and

two time winner of Pulitzer Prize, one of
which was awarded to both him and his
wife, also a Times journalist for their
coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square
democracy movement . Mr. Kristof has
 taken special interest in Web journalism
and was the first blooger on The New York
Times Web site.

Serge Schmemann - A 1991 Pulitzer Prize

winner in international reporting for
coverage of the reunification of Germany,
Serge Schmemann became editorial page
editor of the IHT in May 2003. From March
2001 he was a senior foreign affairs writer
based in New York and writer for the
United Nations bureau providing regular
news analyses and news articles on major
international issues.

Sports
Jeff Boda oversees our daily sports pages,
coordinating coverage with colleagues in
New York and stringers across the world.

Brad Spurgeon is a long-time auto racing

reporter, who writes on all things relating
to Formula One: the competition, gossip,
technology and the politics.
Christopher Clarey is the IHT’s chief
sports correspondent and has covered
everything from the America’s Cup to the
World Cup and the last ten Olympic Games.
Tennis is his speciality.

Rob Hughes has written and broadcast for

more than four decades. His columns in
International Herald Tribune since 1977
reflect the global phenomenon of football
(soccer). As Chief Sports Writer for The
Times of London for 10 years, and at The
Sunday Times he has covered most
Olympic sports. Brazil’s government
awarded Hughes its highest decoration -
The Order of the Southern Cross, citing:
"Hughes belongs to those few writers who
reach beyond the mere descriptive to find
in sports a deeper expression of individual
and national aspirations."

Huw Richards has been the cricket writer

for the IHT since 1999 and also covers
Rugby Union and Australian Football.
Technology
David Pogue writes the tech column for
the New York Times every week, and in
Scientific American every month. With
over 3 million books in print, David is one
of the world's bestselling how-to authors.
He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the
"for Dummies" series. David graduated
summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with
distinction in Music. He's won an Emmy
and a Loeb award for journalism.

Aron Pilhofer - Aron Pilhofer is editor of

Interactive News at The New York Times.
His team blends journalism and technology
to enhance The Times's reporting online
through social media, community and
dynamic, data-driven Web applications.

Andrew Devigal - is the multimedia editor

at The New York Times. He oversees a staff
of multimedia producers and helps direct
the presentation of multimedia on the web.
In the news industry since 1993 as a staff
artist, graphic journalist (The Chicago
Tribune), web designer
(ChicagoTribune.com), product developer
and designer (Knight Ridder New Media),
researcher (The Poynter Institute) and
journalism professor (San Francisco State
University), he’s been in the privileged
position to practice and observe
multimedia journalism from its inception.

Steve Duenes - is the graphics director of

the New York Times, a position he has held
since 2004. He came to the Times in 1999
as the graphics editor for the science
section, and was promoted to deputy
graphics director in 2001. He oversees the
newspaper's graphics department, which
has a staff of nearly 30 journalists who
create the maps, charts and diagrams for
the newspaper and nytimes.com.

Matthew Ericson is the deputy graphics

director at The New York Times, where he
helps oversee a department of journalists,
artists and programmers who produce the
interactive information graphics for
nytimes.com, as well as all the graphics for
the print newspaper.
Travel
Danielle Mattoon – is the Travel Editor of
the New York Times. Previously Danielle
was Arts & Leisure deputy editor. She was
senior editor at Tina Brown’s now-
shuttered Talk magazine before landing as
deputy culture editor at the New York
Times. Before her position there, Matttoon
was an editor at Rolling Stone.

Monica Drake - is a staff editor at the New

York Times. In addition to her primary role
on the metro copy desk, she has served as
deputy features editor and regional arts
editor. Monica joined the York Times as a
Dow Jones copy editing intern in 1998 and
continued to work on the copy desk part
time while completing her master's degree
in journalism at Columbia University.
Monica has assumed several assignments
at the Times, including a stint as a copy
editor at the International Herald Tribune
in Paris, and she has written freelance
articles for the paper. She is active in the
Yale University alumni association and
spends much of her free time writing short
stories and travelling.
Michelle Higgins has been a reporter for
The New York Times since May 2005. Her
weekly Practical Traveler column, which
appears Sundays in the Travel section and
on the Web, offers insider information on
how to navigate the travel experience –
from how to get a good seat on a plane to
how to find a better hotel deal. She also
routinely writes features and consumer
news for the Travel and Business sections.
She previously covered automobiles and
real estate for the Escapes section.

Michelle has been featured on NBC’s

TODAY show, CNN, CNBC’s Squawk Box
and Power Lunch, the Travel Channel and
NPR. She also contributed regularly to
CNBC's On the Money