Elizabeth Rubin
Elizabeth Rubin is an American journalist. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has traveled through and written about Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, Vogue and The New Yorker. She lives in New York City.[1]
Personal life
The daughter of publisher Harvey Rubin and his wife Judith, Rubin was raised in Larchmont, New York and earned a B.A. at Columbia University and an M.Phil. at Oxford University. She is the sister of former diplomat and journalist and executive editor at Bloomberg News, James Rubin who served under President Bill Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department.
Career
Rubin started her career reviewing theater at the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, before moving to The Forward as deputy cultural editor. In 1994 she went to Sarajevo for a six-week stint which lasted nearly two years. Her reportage in Harper's about private armies, diamond wars, and state collapse in Sierra Leone was a National Magazine Award finalist and earned an Overseas Press Club citation for excellence. After 9/11, she covered the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for The New Republic and wrote about Russians, Chechens, Saudis, Iraqis, Iranians, and Americans abroad for The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer.[2]
Awards
Rubin is a 2004-2005 Nieman Fellow. At The New Yorker, she won the Livingston Award for International Reporting for her story about a Ugandan rebel army of kidnapped children.[3] She was a 2008–2009 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow.[4]
References
- ^ "Elizabeth Rubin". Center for Communication. Archived from the original on 2013-09-07.
- ^ "Elizabeth Rubin". The New York Times.
- ^ Livingston Award past winners Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine Wallace House, University of Michigan
- ^ "Former Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Steven Erlanger (1982)
- Thomas Friedman (1983)
- Rick Atkinson (1984)
- Larry Tye (1985)
- Blaine Harden (1986)
- Barbara Fischkin (1987)
- Ira Glass (1988; co-winner)
- Alexis Muellner (1988; co-winner)
- Jonathan Schwartz (1988; co-winner)
- Anne Nelson (1989)
- Peter Gumbel (1990)
- David Remnick (1991)
- Steve Coll (1992)
- Christiane Amanpour (1993)
- Pamela Burdman (1994)
- Mitchell Zuckoff (1995)
- David S. Rohde (1996)
- C. J. Chivers (1997)
- Alan Zarembo (1998)
- Elizabeth Rubin (1999)
- Kevin Heldman (2000)
- Michael Finkel (2001)
- Sumana Chatterjee (2002 co-winner)
- Sudarsan Raghavan (2002 co-winner)
- Philip P. Pan (2003)
- T. Christian Miller (2004)
- Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (2005)
- Edward Wong (2006)
- Evan Osnos (2007)
- Christof Putzel (2008)
- Lydia Polgreen (2009)
- Abbie Boudreau (2010)
- Matt Katz (2011)
- Mattathias Schwartz (2012)
- Edythe McNamee (2013 co-winner)
- John D. Sutter (2013 co-winner)
- Luke Mogelson (2014)
- Matthieu Aikins (2015)
- Adrian Chen (2016)
- Ben Taub (2017)
- Christina Goldbaum (2018)
- Davey Alba (2019)
- Brett Murphy (2020)
- Chao Deng (2021)
- Erika Lantz (2022 co-winner)
- Elin Lantz Lesser (2022 co-winner)
- Vasilisa Stepanenko (2023)
- Renata Brito (2024)