Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author Barton Gellman Joins CLS as Senior Research Fellow

February 12, 2010

Barton Gellman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, has joined the Center on Law and Security as a Senior Research Fellow. Gellman will develop a new program on national security and investigative strategies for journalists and other public interest researchers who work in the uniquely challenging terrain of defense, intelligence, and foreign policy. Beginning in fall 2010, Bart will lead a select team of visiting fellows to build a set of best practices and investigative tools designed to shed light on vital policies that are ordinarily debated out of public view.  

"Bart Gellman is one of a handful of investigative journalists who has accurately shaped the defining moments of our time," says Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security. "In Angler, Bart revealed how Dick Cheney reshaped the role of the vice presidency; the book is a searing, profoundly disturbing, and brilliant stroke of consummate writing and reporting. Bart also spent more than two decades at The Washington Post, where his reporting rightly earned him every key journalism honor. At the Center, he will be indispensable in creating a new generation of journalists and researchers who share his gifts and values. We welcome him and are deeply honored by his presence."  

From his new base at the Center, Bart will also write cover stories for TIME as contributing editor at large, begin work on his next book, and consult on HBO's film adaptation of his bestseller, Angler. Angler was named among the best books of 2008 by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Angler also won The Los Angeles Times Book Award. Bart is also the author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power.  

Bart spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where he held posts as legal affairs reporter, military correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, diplomatic correspondent, and special projects reporter. Among his memorable subjects were the Marion Barry trial, the first Persian Gulf War, the Marine landing in Somalia, Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in Israel, the collapse of U.N. weapons inspections, the life of Bill Bradley, the global AIDS pandemic, the failed hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, abuses of the Patriot Act, and the machinations of the Cheney era.   Bart twice shared the Pulitzer Prize and three additional times was a jury-nominated finalist. He has also won a George Polk Award, Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, two Overseas Press Club awards, the Gerald Ford Prize for defense reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi bronze medallion and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline writing.  

The Center on Law and Security, founded in 2003 at NYU's School of Law, is an independent, non-partisan, global center of expertise designed to promote informed understanding of the legal and security issues that define the post-9/11 environment.  

For more on Bart, visit www.bartongellman.com.