- Alexei Barrionuevo
Alexei Barrionuevo is an American news journalist who has been the Southern Cone bureau chief for the American newspaper "
The New York Times ", based inRio de Janeiro, Brazil , since August 2007. Barrionuevo previously was a national business correspondent for "The Times" based inChicago , from 2005 to 2007.Career
Barrionuevo was born and raised in Illinois and graduated from the University of California with a degree in Political Science.
Prior to joining The Times he worked in Brussels as a reporter for "
The Wall Street Journal " covering European anti-trust, regulation and integration of Eastern Europe into the European Union. He began at "The Journal" as a reporter covering global energy from the Houston bureau, where he was part of "The Journal"'s award-winning coverage of the fall of Enron. He also briefly served as a correspondent for the paper inTurkey andIraq .Barrionuevo began his professional career as a reporter at "
The Dallas Morning News ", where he covered education and general news from 1993 to 1997.Notes
Jack Shafer of Slate has accused Barrionuevo of plagiarism twice. [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2185847/ More Plagiarism, Same Times Reporter] ] [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2185136/ A New York Times story helps itself to two lines from a Miami Herald piece] ] Some of the accusations against Barrionuevo are disputed. [ [http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/941748.aspx?ArticleID=2185847 Slate.com] ]References
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