Roy Gutman, International Security Reporter, Newsday, President, Crimes of War Project

Mr. Gutman joined Newsday in January 1982 and served for eight years as National Security Reporter in Washington, DC. While European Bureau Chief, from late 1989 to 1994, he reported the downfall of the Polish, East German, and Czechoslovak regimes, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the first democratic elections in the former East Bloc, and the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. He currently covers the issues and institutions of international security in Washington DC for Newsday. His reporting on Serb atrocities in Bosnia was awarded the special Human Rights in Media award of the International League of Human Rights, the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, the Polk Award for best foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, among others. He is the author of Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981–1987 (1988), A Witness to Genocide (1993), and he is co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (1999).

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