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Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born July 22, 1971) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who works for The New York Times. From 2022 he has been a New York Times global correspondent based in London. From 2018 to 2022, he was The New York Times South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi. From 2006 to July 2017, he was their East Africa bureau chief.
Jeffrey was born in 1971 in a Jewish family in Chicago. His father Robert William Gettleman (b. 1943), was a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and his mother, Joyce R. Gettleman, was a psychotherapist with a private practice in Evanston. Gettleman's sister Lynn Gettleman Chehab is a physician.
Gettleman graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1989, and Cornell University in 1994 with a B.A. in Philosophy. Initially, he did not know what he wanted to do after graduation, so he took a leave of absence to backpack around the world, which he says helped set his life trajectory. However, when a professor suggested journalism as a profession, he scoffed at the notion, saying "That was the dumbest idea I had heard... who wants to work for a boring newspaper?". Beginning in 1994, he was a communications officer for the Save the Children organization in Addis Ababa.
After his graduation from Cornell, Gettleman received a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he received a master's degree in Philosophy in June 1996. While at Oxford, he was the first American editor of Cherwell, the university's student newspaper.
Gettleman began his journalism career as a city hall and police reporter for the St. Petersburg Times from 1997 to 1998. In 1999, he transferred to the Los Angeles Times as a general assignment reporter. He became bureau chief in Atlanta two years later, and was also a war correspondent for the broadsheet in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
In 2002, Gettleman joined The New York Times as a domestic correspondent in Atlanta, where he later became the bureau chief. In 2003, he began reporting from Iraq, and did a total of five tours. After a stint as a reporter for the paper's Metro desk in 2004, he became a foreign correspondent in July 2006 for the Nairobi-based East Africa bureau of The New York Times. In August 2006, he was named bureau chief.
Gettleman covers over ten countries, often under difficult circumstances. He has focused the majority of his work on events in Congo, Kenya and Tanzania in East-Central Africa, where he has reported on atrocities involving rape, mutilation as well as ritualized murders of albinos, among other issues. His often straightforward, non-cynical approach toward such difficult stories has been colloquially dubbed the "Gettleman method" by Jack Shafer.
Gettleman has also covered conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, and Yemen. In the 2004 spring, he along with photographer Lynsey Addario were abducted for several hours by militants in Fallujah. According to Gettleman, the pair were eventually released because he had successfully posed as Greek and concealed his passport in Addario's trousers, where he had guessed his captors would not search.
Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born July 22, 1971) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who works for The New York Times. From 2022 he has been a New York Times global correspondent based in London. From 2018 to 2022, he was The New York Times South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi. From 2006 to July 2017, he was their East Africa bureau chief.
Jeffrey was born in 1971 in a Jewish family in Chicago. His father Robert William Gettleman (b. 1943), was a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and his mother, Joyce R. Gettleman, was a psychotherapist with a private practice in Evanston. Gettleman's sister Lynn Gettleman Chehab is a physician.
Gettleman graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1989, and Cornell University in 1994 with a B.A. in Philosophy. Initially, he did not know what he wanted to do after graduation, so he took a leave of absence to backpack around the world, which he says helped set his life trajectory. However, when a professor suggested journalism as a profession, he scoffed at the notion, saying "That was the dumbest idea I had heard... who wants to work for a boring newspaper?". Beginning in 1994, he was a communications officer for the Save the Children organization in Addis Ababa.
After his graduation from Cornell, Gettleman received a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he received a master's degree in Philosophy in June 1996. While at Oxford, he was the first American editor of Cherwell, the university's student newspaper.
Gettleman began his journalism career as a city hall and police reporter for the St. Petersburg Times from 1997 to 1998. In 1999, he transferred to the Los Angeles Times as a general assignment reporter. He became bureau chief in Atlanta two years later, and was also a war correspondent for the broadsheet in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
In 2002, Gettleman joined The New York Times as a domestic correspondent in Atlanta, where he later became the bureau chief. In 2003, he began reporting from Iraq, and did a total of five tours. After a stint as a reporter for the paper's Metro desk in 2004, he became a foreign correspondent in July 2006 for the Nairobi-based East Africa bureau of The New York Times. In August 2006, he was named bureau chief.
Gettleman covers over ten countries, often under difficult circumstances. He has focused the majority of his work on events in Congo, Kenya and Tanzania in East-Central Africa, where he has reported on atrocities involving rape, mutilation as well as ritualized murders of albinos, among other issues. His often straightforward, non-cynical approach toward such difficult stories has been colloquially dubbed the "Gettleman method" by Jack Shafer.
Gettleman has also covered conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, and Yemen. In the 2004 spring, he along with photographer Lynsey Addario were abducted for several hours by militants in Fallujah. According to Gettleman, the pair were eventually released because he had successfully posed as Greek and concealed his passport in Addario's trousers, where he had guessed his captors would not search.