Carlotta Gall

Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who covers Afghanistan,^[1] as well as Pakistan for The New York Times.

Carlotta Gall is a daughter of the British journalist Sandy Gall and Eleanor Gall. She was educated in England and read Russian and French at Newnham College, Cambridge. She received a Masters from City University, London in International Relations and Journalism.

She started her newspaper career with The Moscow Times, in Moscow, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union. She also freelanced for British papers (The Independent, The Times, and The Sunday Times) as well as American publications (USA Today, Newsweek and The New York Times).

She is the co-author with Thomas de Waal, of Chechnya: A Small Victorious War, Macmillan, UK, 1996, also published as Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus, New York University Press, U.S.A., 1997. The book was awarded the James Cameron prize in the UK in 1997. Gall was awarded the Kurt Schork award for international freelance journalism in 2002, the Interaction award for outstanding international reporting in 2005, and was awarded the Weintal Award for diplomatic reporting by Georgetown University.

In 1998 she moved to the Financial Times and The Economist reporting on the Caucasus and Central Asia from Baku, Azerbaijan. From 1999 to 2001 Gall worked in the Balkans for the New York Times, covering the wars in Kosovo, Serbia and Macedonia and developments in Bosnia and the rest of the former Yugoslavia. Since 2001 she has been based in Afghanistan, and today is a reporter with The New York Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Gall is featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side (2007). Carlotta Gall was the first reporter to report the story of two Afghans who died in US custody at Bagram air base (Parwan Detention Facility). The case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death in 2002 while in U.S. military custody forms the heart of the documentaries examination of the abuses committed during the detainment and interrogation of political prisoners. Gall investigated the death of cab driver Dilawar, officially declared by the military to be from natural cause, but uncovered incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

Bibliography

• Gall, Carlotta and Thomas de Waal. Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. New York: New York University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8147-2963-0 ISBN 978-0814729632

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External links

• Journalisted - Articles by Carlotta Gall

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