Steven Erlanger

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Steven J. Erlanger is an American journalist who has been the Paris bureau chief for "The New York Times" since 2008. Erlanger joined the "Times" in September 1987.

Erlanger became the "Times" bureau chief in Paris, succeeding Elaine Sciolino, in March 2008.

Career

After graduating "magna cum laude" from Harvard College in 1974 with an A.B. in political philosophy, Erlanger was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1975 to 1983. Concurrent with this billet, he was a correspondent for the "Boston Globe" beginning in 1976, where he served in various posts on the national and foreign desks.

Erlanger's previous posts at the "Times" include:
* metropolitan reporter (1987-88)
* Southeast Asia correspondent and Bangkok bureau chief (October 1988-May 1991)
* Moscow correspondent (March 1992-94) and bureau chief (May 1994-January 1996)
* chief diplomatic correspondent, based in Washington (January 1996-January 1999)
* bureau chief for Central Europe and the Balkans, based in Prague (January 1999-2001)
* Berlin bureau chief (August 2001-2)
* cultural news editor (December 2002-June 2004)
* Jerusalem bureau chief (2004-2008)

Awards

* 1981 - Robert Livingston Award for international reporting for a series of articles about Eastern Europe
* 2000 - German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in reporting and analyzing European and transatlantic affairs
* 2001 - ASNE's Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline reporting for his work in the former Yugoslavia

Personal

Erlanger is the son of Jay and Florence Erlanger"Paid Notice: DeathsERLANGER, FLORENCE C., RN." "The New York Times", 5 April 2006.] . He is married to Elisabeth Erlanger. Erlanger graduated from The Taft School in 1970.

Bibliography

* "The Colonial Worker in Boston, 1775." Washington: U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1975. ASIN: B0006W3PG8

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