Jeffrey Gettleman

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Jeffrey Gettleman
Born	1971
Occupation	journalist
Spouse	Courtenay Morris
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, St. Petersburg Times, Cherwell

Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American journalist who has been the East Africa bureau chief of The New York Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2006.

Gettleman graduated from Cornell University in 1994 with a B.A. in Philosophy^[1], after which he became a communications officer for Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and received a. M. Phil. in June 1996. While at Oxford, Gettleman was the first American editor of Cherwell, the university's student newspaper. From 1997 to 1998 he was a city hall and cop reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

In 1999, Gettleman joined the Los Angeles Times as a general assignment reporter. In 2000, he became bureau chief in Atlanta and was also a war correspondent in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

In 2002, Gettleman joined The New York Times as a domestic correspondent and later bureau chief in Atlanta. He has also reported from Iraq since 2003 and has been a commentator on CNN and other television networks.

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Gettleman is the son of Robert W. Gettleman (b. 1943)^[2], a judge of the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois^[3], and Joyce R. Gettleman, a psychotherapist with a private practice in Evanston, Illinois^[4]. Gettleman's sister Lynn Gettleman Chehab is a physician.

Gettleman is married to Courtenay Morris^[5], a former assistant public defender who is now a web producer for the Times.

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