Alissa J. Rubin is the Baghdad bureau chief for The New York Times and previously served as bureau chief in Paris and Kabul. Before joining the Times in 2007, she covered the Balkans as the Vienna bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times while simultaneously working as Baghdad co-bureau chief. She spent 10 years reporting in Washington before going overseas.
I never set out to cover wars. What I wanted was to report overseas, understand foreign lands, explore how the world worked. But my timing was off — or perhaps it was just right. It was the summer of 2001 … Read more
On January 26, 2006, a few days after freelance reporter Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Iraq, Los Angeles Times correspondent Alissa J. Rubin wrote a Page One story entitled, “Abduction Forces a Grim Look at What a Story Is Worth.” … Read more
‘For the first time it has been possible for large numbers of journalists to observe closely the behavior of U.S. troops and how it refracted among Iraqis.’ Read more
