Barton Gellman
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Barton David Gellman (born 1960 ) is a journalist and special projects reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post. Gellman shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize National Reporting with other members of the newspaper's staff, honored for its "comprehensive coverage of America's war on terrorism, which regularly brought forth new information together with skilled analysis of unfolding developments." On October 3, 2001, he contributed an important article about failed efforts to catch Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks.[1]
Individually and collaboratively, Gellman has subsequently broken important stories about the use of intelligence leading to the war in Iraq, including the first public reporting on the secretive White House Iraq Group.[2] With fellow Washington Post reporter Jo Becker, Gellman wrote a widely-read four-part series on Vice President Dick Cheney entitled "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency", that was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.[3]
In previous postings, Gellman covered Washington DC courts, including the trial of former mayor Marion Barry; was Pentagon correspondent during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the U.S. intervention in Somalia and the social upheavals relating to the status of gays in the military and the assignment of women to combat roles; became Jerusalem bureau chief in 1994, covering peace negotiations, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the ascent of Binyamin Netanyahu; returned to Washington as diplomatic correspondent, covering Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the collapse of the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) effort to disarm Iraq; and moved to New York in 1999 to take up the special projects role.
Gellman is a summa cum laude graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and earned a Master's Degree in politics at University College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.[4] From 2007-2008, Gellman was a fellow at the New York University School of Law Center on Law and Security.
He is author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power, a 1985 study of the post-World War II "containment" doctrine and its architect, George F. Kennan.[4]
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[edit] Personal and family history
The son of Stuart Gellman of Tucson, Arizona, and Marci Jacobs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1990, in Chappaqua, New York, he married Tracy Ellen Sivitz, a staff lawyer for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, D.C.).[5] The marriage ended in divorce.
[edit] Books
- Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. ISBN 0-275-91737-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-275-91737-1 (13). [Hardcover ed.] New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985. ISBN 0-275-91805-X (10). ISBN 978-0-275-91805-7 (13). [Paperback ed.]
[edit] Notes
- ^ name=Gellman1>Barton Gellman, "U.W. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts to Capture Bin Laden or Have Him Killed: Sudan's Offer to Arrest Militant Fell Through After Saudis Said No". Washington Post October 3, 2001, National Reporting: A01, accessed July 29, 2007.
- ^ Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus, "Iraq's Nuclear File: Inside the Prewar Debate Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence", Washington Post, August 10, 2003: A01, accessed July 29, 2007.
- ^ Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency", Washington Post, June 24, 2007 – June 27, 2007, accessed July 29, 2007. ("Angler" is Vice President Dick Cheney's Secret Service codename.)
- ^ a b "Bart Gellman" biography at The Washington Post, February 11, 2005, accessed July 29, 2007.
- ^ "Barton Gellman to Marry Tracy Sivitz in September", New York Times, July 22, 1990, accessed July 29, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Bart Gellman" biography at The Washington Post. February 11, 2005. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power book description at Greenwood Publishing Group. Accessed July 29, 2007. (Paperback ed.)
- "Interview: Barton Gellman". Conducted on January 29, 2003 for The War Behind Closed Doors. Program first broadcast on Frontline, Public Broadcasting Service, February 20, 2003. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- "Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist to Discuss U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Pre-September 11". Press Release announcing lecture by Gellman at Princeton University in 2004. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- "National Security Beat: Barton Gellman". 2006 Washington Post biography. Accessed July 29, 2007.
- Recent Washington Post articles written by Barton Gellman. Accessed July 29, 2007.
