Judith Matloff

Judith Matloff

Judith Matloff worked as a staff foreign correspondent for 20 years, specializing in areas of turmoil. She covered a total 62 countries, heading the Africa and Moscow bureaus of The Christian Science Monitor. Previously, Matloff spent a decade at Reuters in various positions in Europe and Africa. She has reported on major world matters including apartheid’s demise, genocide, EU expansion and OPEC.

Matloff has written for The New York Times, The Economist, The Dallas Morning News and Newsweek. Her various awards include a Fulbright fellowship to Mexico and the Monitor’s highest prize, the Godsell, for stories about Congo’s conflict. Matloff won a MacArthur grant to write a book about Angola’s civil war. (Fragments of a Forgotten War, Penguin, 1997.)

Matloff earned a B.A. from Harvard. She serves on the advisory board of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and is a contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review.

Her new book, Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block, is about her setting up a new life in Harlem. Read more about the book, published by Random House.

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