Celia W. Dugger

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Celia W. Dugger
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Born July 3, 1958 (1958-07-03) (age 49)
Birth place Austin, Texas
Circumstances
Occupation journalist
Family Ronnie Dugger, father
Spouse Barry Bearak
Children two sons
Notable credit(s) The New York Times

Celia Williams Dugger (born July 3, 1958, Austin, Texas) is an American journalist who works for The New York Times, frequently writing on global health and poverty issues.

Along with her husband Barry Bearak - currently a New York Times staff writer and visiting professor at Columbia University - Dugger served as co-bureau chief of the New York Times South Asia bureau in New Delhi from 1998 to 2002. In October 2007, it was announced that Dugger and Bearak will be NYT bureau chiefs in Johannesburg in early 2008.

[edit] Awards

In 2006, Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil won the Overseas Press Club award for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition, for their series "Diseases on the Brink." The same series was also honored with an Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award that year[1].

[edit] Personal life

Dugger and Bearak live in Westchester County, New York; they have two sons.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Accessed May 3, 2007.