Stryker McGuire

Stryker McGuire (born September 12, 1947) is a journalist working in London. McGuire is a contributing editor at Newsweek magazine, where he was a correspondent, bureau chief and editor for 30 years; the founding editor of International Quarterly [http://www.iquarterly.org] , and an associate at Lombard Street Research, an economics consultancy in the City of London.

A native of New York City, McGuire graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., in 1969. McGuire wrote “Streets With No Names” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), which chronicled his travels through Central and South America in 1986-1987. He was a co-author, with other Newsweek correspondents, of “Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did To Us” (William Morrow & Co., 1983). As London bureau chief, he is a regular television and radio guest in Britain, Europe and the United States; a regular panelist on the BBC-TV program “Dateline,” and a frequent contributor to such publications as The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman and The Spectator.

McGuire was London bureau chief from August 1996 until April 2008. In that time, he covered the rise and fall of Tony Blair in numerous articles, including a dozen cover stories. He wrote extensively about Prime Minister Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, and the Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

McGuire's cover story "London Rules," in 1996, was the first piece of journalism to herald the return of "Cool Britannia" to a rapidly changing city. His coverage of immigration issues earned the Best Foreign Reporting award from the Foreign Press Association in London in 2000.

As London bureau chief, McGuire covered a number of political, economic, cultural and social developments, from Iberia to Scandinavia to Eastern Europe. His 2000 cover story on Stockholm as the Internet Capital of Europe was cited in the European press as a groundbreaking piece of journalism. He wrote major articles on the Zara clothing chain in 2001, Microsoft's war on software piracy, Spanish prime ministers José María Aznar and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Prior to his London posting, McGuire served as West Coast editor for Newsweek from 1993 to 1996, with responsibility for editorial bureaus in Los Angeles and San Francisco. As West Coast editor, McGuire directed the magazine's award-winning coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, the magazine's reporting on the fast-expanding entertainment industry and immigration issues, as well as major disasters such as the Southern California brush fires of 1993 and the Los Angeles-Northridge earthquake of 1994. He also helped to direct Newsweek’s on-the-ground coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Waco (Texas) Siege in 1993.

Before going to work for Newsweek in 1978, McGuire spent eight years at the San Antonio Light, where he won a series of state and national honors while heading the paper’s investigative-reporting team. At Newsweek, he served as Los Angeles correspondent (1978-1980), Houston bureau chief (1980-1983), Newsweek International senior editor (1983-1987), and Mexico City bureau chief and Latin America regional editor (1988-1989). Between 1989 and 1993, McGuire was Newsweek’s chief of correspondents, directing the magazine’s reporting assets in the United States and around the world.