Elisabeth Bumiller
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Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956), an American journalist and former White House correspondent for the New York Times.
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[edit] Personal
She has been married since 1983 to Steven R. Weisman, also a former White House correspondent, who reported from India and Japan for the New York Times and is now the senior diplomatic correspondent for that newspaper. The couple has two children.
Born in Aalborg, Denmark to a Danish mother and American father, Bumiller moved to the U.S. when she was three years old. She moved to Cincinnati, where she graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1974. She is a 1977 graduate of Northwestern University.
[edit] Career
Bumiller has produced varied coverage of the White House since joining the beat on September 10, 2001. Some have criticized her as offering flattering coverage of the president and deferring to administration spin, with "human interest" stories often centered on such matters as the first family's haircuts or pets.
Bumiller remarked (in 2004) on the timid press conference in 2003 on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: "I think we were very deferential because in the East Room press conference it’s live. It’s very intense. It’s frightening to stand up there."[1][2][3]
In 2003, she wrote of the president's famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, "George W. Bush's Top Gun landing on the deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln will be remembered as one of the most audacious moments of presidential theater in American history."
[edit] Books
She is also the author of "May You Be the Mother of A Hundred Sons," a study of women's roles in 1980s Indian society, as well as "The Secrets of Mariko," a book focusing on the inner workings of a Japanese family during a year in the early 90s.
[edit] External links
- Profile in Northwestern Alumni Magazine
