Barry Bearak

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Barry Bearak is an American journalist, born Aug. 31, 1949, in Chicago. Along with his wife Celia Dugger -- also a New York Times correspondent -- Bearak served as co-bureau chief of the New York Times south Asia bureau from 1998 to 2002. Bearak won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his penetrating accounts of poverty and war in Afghanistan. He is currently a staff writer for the New York Times and a visiting professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Bearak earned a B.A. from Knox College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois.

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