BA in History. MSc degree in International Relations. Adjunct professor at the Medill School of Journalism. Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace. Washington-based correspondent for Newsweek. Newsday European bureau chief (1989–1994). Reports on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the first documented accounts of Serb-run concentration camps, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (1993), the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Hal Boyle award of the Overseas Press Club, the Heywood Broun Award of the Newspaper Guild, a special Human Rights in Media award of the International League for Human Rights, and other honours. Co-winner of the Edgar Allen Poe award of the White House Correspondents’ Association (2002), National Headliners First Prize for Magazines and the Society of Publishers in Asia awards (2003).

Publications include: Banana Diplomacy, The Making of American policy in Nicaragua 1981–1987 (Simon & Schuster 1988), A Witness to Genocide (Macmillan 1993). Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (Co-ed. David Rieff,W.W. Norton 1999).