Tom Bowman (journalist)

Tom Bowman is NPR's pentagon reporter and has been an investigative reporter for the "Baltimore Sun" for 19 years.

He has been The Sun's military affairs correspondent since 1997. Before then he covered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and the National Security Agency. He has reported from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Bowman grew up in Boston. He started his newspaper career in 1976 as a stringer for "The Patriot Ledger" in Quincy, Massachusetts.

He attended St. Michael's College in Vermont, receiving a bachelor's degree in history, and then received a master's in American studies from Boston College.

Bowman presently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Brigid Schulte, a "Washington Post" reporter, and their children, Liam and Tessa.

Selected articles

* 1995, "No Such Agency", 6-part series
* March 17, 2000, "Unlocking the secret of Kryptos"

References

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5457129 Tom Bowman, NPR Biography]
* [http://www.militaryreporters.org/mre_bios.html MilitaryReporters.org biography]
* [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1725444 "Defense reporters organize to address coverage"] , September 30, 2002, "Editor & Publisher"