Julius Strauss

Julius Strauss is a British print journalist who spent several years working as a foreign correspondent in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war zones.

He started out in Bosnia during the war there and was later made Balkan Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. In 2002 he was posted to Moscow as the Telegraph's bureau chief, from where he covered Putin's Russia and various Chechen crises. He also continued to report from Iraq.

In 2005 Julius Strauss resigned from the Telegraph and relocated to Canada where he spent six months working for the Globe and Mail covering mostly Indian Affairs on northern reserves. In 2007, he was appointed to the Atwood Chair in the journalism department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. [http://www.alaskapressclub.com/index.php/news/44/]

Since early 2006 he has been running [http://www.grizzlybearranch.ca Grizzly Bear Ranch] in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia but still takes freelance commissions. His journalism website is at www.juliusstrauss.com [http://www.juliusstrauss.com] .