Tom Gjelten

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Tom Gjelten (pronounced /ˈdʒɛltən/) is a correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) news. Gjelten has worked for NPR since 1982, when he joined the orgainization as a labor and education reporter. More recently he has covered diplomatic and national security issues, based out of NPR's Washington, D.C. headquarters.

Gjelten and his colleagues at NPR received a Peabody Award in 2004 for "The War in Iraq".

[edit] Family

Gjelten resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Martha Raddatz.

[edit] Books by Gjelten

  • Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060926627
  • Professionalism in War Reporting: A Correspondent's View (Carnegie Corporation)
  • Co-Author of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (W. W. Norton) ISBN 0393319148
  • Due out in 2008: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause (Viking).

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