Roy Gutman
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2002 - October 2003 (In Residence)
October 2003 - December 2003 (Out of Residence)
Europe • Balkans • Germany • Media and Conflict • Human Rights • Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans • Transitional Justice and Rule of Law • War Crimes
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Project Focus
International Humanitarian Law and the Media: The Case of Afghanistan
Foreign Language: German
Background
Roy Gutman is diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek and director of American University's Crimes of War Project. He is perhaps best known to American readers for his prize-winning coverage of the 1993 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he provided the first documented reports of concentration camps. Gutman's assignments have included postings as Newsday's European bureau chief, and as Reuters' Belgrade bureau chief and State Department correspondent. He has been a Washington-based national security reporter for Newsday, and reported for Reuters from Bonn, Vienna, London, and Washington.
Gutman is the author of Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua, 1981–1987 and A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dispatches on Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnia. He is co-author of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. Gutman's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, and a special Human Rights in Media Award from the International League for Human Rights. He holds an M.A. in international relations from the London School of Economics.
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