Barbara Slavin

Senior Diplomatic Reporter
USA Today

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Barbara Slavin is the senior diplomatic reporter for USA TODAY since 1996, with the responsibility for analyzing foreign news and U.S. foreign policy. Sha has covered such key issues as the U.S.-led war on terrorism, policy toward "rogue" states, the reform movement in Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sha has also accompanied two Secretaries of State on their official travels and reported from Libya, Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Most recently, Slavin was a Washington-based writer for The Economist and Los Angeles Times. She covered domestic and foreign policy issues, including the 1991-93 Middle East peace talks.

Prior to that, Slavin was the Middle East correspondent based in Cairo for The Economist. She traveled widely, covered the Iran-Iraq war, the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya, the political evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism.

Slavin also worked as a Tokyo correspondent for Newsday and The Economist and a Beijing correspondent for The Economist and Business Week.

Slavin received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Russian language and literature in 1972. Upon graduation, she worked for United Press International in New York City as a reporter and editor and later a foreign news writer and editor for the New York Times Week in Review section.

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