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Michael Slackman is an American journalist for The New York Times.[1] As one of the paper's lead editors, he currently oversees the daily news report, presiding over the team that has eyes on all of the paper's top stories.[2]
From 2014 to 2022, as head of the International desk, Slackman was in charge of The New York Times international coverage. He managed more than 30 Times bureaus, newsrooms in London and Seoul and hundreds of employees around the globe.[3]
Slackman was deputy foreign editor from 2011 to 2014, helping oversee all global coverage, with an emphasis on coordinating the Middle East report. Before returning to New York, in May 2011, Slackman was a foreign correspondent for The Times for six years.[4]
As a correspondent, Slackman was the Berlin bureau chief, a posting that lasted a year. Previously, he spent eight years based in Egypt, three for The Los Angeles Times and five for The New York Times. During that period he reported from every country in the region, from Morocco to Iran. He covered Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion, and as both a reporter and an editor, he has helped document the tremendous changes sweeping the Arab world.[5]
Before going to the Middle East, Slackman was the Moscow bureau chief for Newsday for three years, covering the economy and social chaos of post-Soviet Russia and the leadership transition from Yeltsin to Putin (1998-2001). As International editor for The New York Times, he has overseen teams that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2017, 2020 and in 2022. He was part of the Newsday team that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting in 1997. He is a graduate of Northeastern University.[6]
Life
Slackman graduated from the Northeastern University School of Journalism.[7]
He was the Cairo Bureau Chief, for the Los Angeles Times,[8] and the Moscow Bureau Chief for Newsday.
He was The New York Times Berlin bureau chief from June 2009 to June 2010 and the Cairo bureau chief from 2002 to 2009.
Awards and honors
He won a 1997 National Award for Education Reporting.[9] Newsday won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting, for its coverage of TWA Flight 800, and Slackman was part of the team.[10][11]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.El, Mona. "Michael Slackman - The New York Times". Topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Slackman Takes on a New Role". 15 September 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Slackman Takes on a New Role". 15 September 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Slackman Takes on a New Role". 15 September 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Slackman Takes on a New Role". 15 September 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael Slackman Takes on a New Role". 15 September 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yang, Ina (November 14, 2011). "Michael Slackman of the New York Times speaks at Medill".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Search for Michael Slackman". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Education Reporting Awards: 1997 Winners - Education Writers Association". Ewa.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ^ "Paul Vitello: Stand for Change, Not Attention". Newsday. July 20, 1996. Reprint at The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ^ "The 1997 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Spot News Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26. With reprints of 38 works (Newsday articles July 19 to July 20, 1996).
External links
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- Charlierose.com
- "Michael Slackman", Sean Leviashvili's blog, May 25, 2009
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