Celia W. Dugger
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Celia W. Dugger | ||
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Born | July 3, 1958 | |
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
- ^ Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Accessed May 3, 2007.