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The New York Times bureau chief to Paris discusses his recent trip to Yemen, his coverage of Muslims in Europe, and a career of analyzing conflict.

About Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger became the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times in March 2008, after nearly four years as bureau chief in Jerusalem, beginning in August 2004.

He has served in numerous postings for The Times, including Berlin bureau chief, bureau chief for Central Europe and the Balkans, based in Prague, and chief diplomatic correspondent, based in Washington. From 1991 to 1995, he was posted in Moscow, after being Bangkok bureau chief and Southeast Asia correspondent from 1988 to 1991.

In New York, he also served as Culture Editor of The Times for two years, from 2002 to 2004.
Previously, he worked for The Boston Globe for 11 years. At The Globe, he was European correspondent, based in London, from 1983 to 1987, and the deputy national and foreign editor for three years before that. He also reported from Eastern Europe, Moscow and revolutionary Iran.
From 1975 to 1983, Mr. Erlanger was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, first in the College and then at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda and global terrorism awarded in 2002 and received ASNE's 2001 Jesse Laventhol prize for deadline reporting for his work in the former Yugoslavia. He won the German Marshall Fund's Peter Weitz Prize in 2000 for excellence and originality in reporting and analyzing European and transatlantic affairs and the Robert Livingston Award for international reporting in 1981 for a series of articles about Eastern Europe

Mr. Erlanger received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1974 and studied Russian at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

Read Steven Erlanger's recent and archived articles from the New York Times.