Sabrina Tavernise

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name = Sabrina Tavernise
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birth_date = birthdateandage|1971|2|24
birth_place = Hartford, Connecticutcite web
url=http://newsite2.iacl.org/localnews/CalendarofEvents/towneventsfeb28mar/
accessdate=2008-07-05
title=Town Events
date=February 28 - Mar. 7, 2007
work=The Reminder
publisher=National Newspaper Network
quote=Sabrina Tavernise, a foreign war correspondent for The New York Times who has been covering the war in Iraq for the last four years, will be speaking at the Westfield Athenaeum on Mar. 5 at 7 p.m. The talk is the first in a series of lectures sponsored by the Athenaeum. All of the lectures are free and open to the public. Tavernise was born in Hartford, Conn. and grew up in the town of Granville, Mass. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1993 with a BA in Russian Studies.]
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Sabrina Tavernise is an American journalist who is currently the Istanbul bureau chief of "The New York Times". She previously reported for the "Times" from Iraq, [cite journal|title=New York Times correspondent offers view from Baghdad|first=Robert|last=Taylor|journal=Communique|publisher=West Connecticut State University|month=March|year=2006|volume=8|issue=6|url=http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/ia/archives/comm-mar2006.pdf] Lebanon, [Tavernise, Sabrina. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/world/middleeast/18hezbollah.html A Girl's Life Bound Close To Hezbollah] ." "The New York Times", 18 August 2006.] and Russia. [cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/tavernise.html |title=Interview with Sabrina Tavernise|first=Sara |last=Miles|work=PBS Frontline|month=October|year=2003|accessdate=2008-07-20]

She received an honorable mention in the 2003 Kurt Schork awards for "her depth and human insight in covering Russia". [cite web
url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/07/kurtSchork_awards.html
title=Columbia Announces Second Annual Kurt Schork Awards Highlighting Overseas Reporting
work=Columbia News
accessdate=2008-07-15
date=2008-07-15
first=Caroline
last=Ladhani] [cite web
url=http://newsite2.iacl.org/localnews/Westfield/formergranvilleres/
accessdate=2008-07-05
title=Former Granville resident talks about her time in Iraq
work=The Reminder
first=Erin
last=O'Connor
date=2008-07-05]

Personal

Raised in Granville, Massachusetts, Tavernise graduated in 1993 with a B.A. in Russian Studies from Barnard College.

Tavernise speaks Italian and Russian, but not Turkish.Fact|date=July 2008

References

External links

* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/sabrina_tavernise/index.html Recent and archived news articles by Sabrina Tavernise of "The New York Times"]
* cite episode
url=http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/02/21/1/a-conversation-with-sabrina-tavernise-of-the-new-york-times
accessdate=2008-07-05
series=The Charlie Rose Show
title=A conversation with Sabrina Tavernise of 'The New York Times'
credits=Charlie Rose
airdate=2007-02-21