Setting the Tone
LMC 2021
Steven Erlanger
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times
Steven Erlanger is a Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times. After spending five years in Paris and four years in Jerusalem, he was the London Bureau Chief at the publication for four years. Mr Erlanger served as a Bureau Chief for Berlin, Central Europe, and the Balkans. He was posted in Moscow (1991-95) and Bangkok (1988-91) and then was a culture editor in New York from 2002 to 2004. Previously, he worked as The Boston Globe European correspondent based in London, where he reported from Eastern Europe, Moscow, and revolutionary Iran. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and another prize in 2002 for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda. He also won the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ 2001 Jesse Laventhol Prize for his work in the former Yugoslavia and the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize in 2000. In 2013, France made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Subjects:
Afghanistan, Capitalism, Democracy, Economy, Europe, European Union, Extremism, Future, Middle East, NATO, Populism, Russia, Ukraine, West
Updated: March 31, 2022