Andrew Higgins

I am the East and Central Europe bureau chief for The New York Times, responsible for coverage of a region that stretches from the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to the Balkans, including Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia. I am based in Warsaw.

What I Cover

I write about the political, economic and cultural issues in Europe’s formerly communist eastern flank, particularly populist forces on both the left and right, as well as efforts by Moscow to exert influence over an area dominated from 1945-89 by the Soviet Union. The region’s tangled history, grievances left over from the past and their influence today are also themes I follow closely.

My Background

After studying classical Chinese in China and working there as a Beijing-based correspondent, I shifted my focus to Russia, spending three stints in Moscow for a total of a dozen years as a correspondent and bureau chief for The Independent, The Wall Street Journal and The Times. My years in Moscow also involved frequent trips to former Soviet republics and formerly communist satellite states in Eastern Europe.

I started my journalism career at Reuters, where I worked as a reporter in East Africa, Central Africa and France. I later moved to Beijing and then Moscow and Hong Kong. I am the co-author of the book “Tianamen: The Rape of Peking,” published in 1989 by Doubleday.

My coverage of the turmoil of Boris Yeltsin’s Russia for The Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999. I received a second Pulitzer for international reporting in 2017 as part of a team of Times reporters that wrote a series on Russia’s use of “dark arts” to extend its influence beyond its borders.

I was born in northern England and raised in Chicago. I graduated from Cambridge University and I also attended Shandong University in Jinan, China, and Middlebury College, where I studied Russian and Arabic.

Journalistic Ethics

As a staff correspondent for the Times, I adhere to the values and standards of integrity outlined in the publication’s Ethical Journalism handbook. Above all I strive to be fair, giving all sides of a story an opportunity to say their piece and ensuring that what I report is factually accurate. I choose not to be affiliated with a political party, and I don’t donate to any political campaigns. I am up front about being a reporter for The Times when I’m working.

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