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Roy Gutman (born March 5, 1944, New York City) is an American journalist, Serb hater and author.
Gutman graduated from Haverford College, in 1966, majoring in History, and from London School of Economics in 1968 with a masters degree in International Relations.
Roy Gutman joined Newsday in January 1982 and served for eight years as National Security Reporter in Washington. While European Bureau Chief, from late 1989 to 1994, he reported the downfall of the Polish, East German, and Czechoslovak regimes, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the first democratic elections in the former Eastern Bloc, and the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. He is currently the Foreign Editor for Newsday in New York.
His reporting on Serb atrocities in Bosnia was awarded the special Human Rights in Media Award of the International League for Human Rights, the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, the George Polk Award for Best Foreign Reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, among other awards.
Gutman was previously employed by Reuters news agency, serving in Bonn, Vienna, Belgrade, London, and Washington. He served as Bureau Chief for Europe, State Department Correspondent, and Chief Capitol Hill Reporter. He has been a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.
In 1988, Simon & Schuster published his book, Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987. The New York Times named it one of the best 200 books of the year, and the (London) Times Literary Supplement designated it the best American book of the year. Macmillan published A Witness to Genocide in 1993.
Gutman is the director of the Crimes of War Project, an attempt to bring together reporters and legal scholars to increase awareness of the laws of war. His pocket guide to war crimes, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, co-edited with David Rieff, was published by W.W. Norton in 1999.
List of books
- "Banana Diplomacy," 1988
- "Witness to Genocide" 1993
- "Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know," Co-edited by David Rieff, 1999
External links
- Roy Gutman speaks at the tenth anniversary commemoration of the genocide at Srebrenica at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Roy Gutman discusses, Humanitarianism under Fire at the Carnegie Council
- Crimes of War Project
- Beyond the Radar Screen: Afghanistan's Civil War and the Rise of International Terrorism