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Eric Schmitt

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Senior Writer for The New York Times

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Eric Schmitt Biography

Eric Schmitt is a senior writer covering terrorism and national security for The New York Times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues, with assignments to Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Africa, Southeast Asia among others. He is the co-author, with The Times’s Thom Shanker, of Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda, published in 2011.

He was first appointed as a Pentagon correspondent for The Times in May 1990. Mr. Schmitt served this position until February 1996, and then again from Sept. 11, 2001, until 2006, covering issues of national security. Between 1996 and 2001, he worked as a domestic correspondent covering, among other subjects, Congress and immigration.

From 1983 until 1984, Mr. Schmitt was the clerk for James Reston, then the senior columnist. He joined The Times in 1983 and has had a number of assignments, including those in financial and business news, commercial aviation and the travel industry, and as a Long Island correspondent.

Some of Mr. Schmitt’s special projects at The Times include the HUD investigation in Puerto Rico the spring of 1990, the Persian Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from January until March 1991, the war in Somalia in December 1992, and the conflict in Haiti in September 1994.

Before joining The Times, Mr. Schmitt was an education reporter at The Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash., from September 1982 until September 1983.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations at Williams College, and during that time studied at El Instituto Internacional in Madrid for a year. He attended Harvard University's Executive Program on National and International Security in 1991 and earned a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University for the 2006-07 academic year.

Mr. Schmitt has shared three Pulitzer Prizes. In 1999, he was part of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer for coverage of the transfer of sensitive military technology to China. In 2009, he was a part of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. And in 2017, he was part of a Pulitzer team that examined how Russian President Vladimir Putin projects power openly and covertly. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Eric Schmitt Videos

  • The CIA & Post 9/11 National Security with NYT Reporter Eric Schmitt
    The CIA & Post 9/11 National Security with NYT Reporter Eric Schmitt
    In this short clip New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt discusses the use of drone strikes in foreign nations as a tactic in fighting terrorism by...
  • Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign
    Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign
    On September 16th, the New America Foundation's National ... held a discussion with New York Times correspondents Eric Schmitt and Thom ...
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Eric Schmitt Books

  • Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
    Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

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