news conference, Mark swiftly corrected him with the rejoinder: ‘Thriving, not failing.’”įor this new chapter in London, Mark will lead a team that includes Stephen Castle and Ben Mueller. President Obama said on Friday that he respected the decision by British voters to leave the European Union, insisting that the move would not change the United States’ special relationship with. Last year when President Trump called on the ‘failing New York Times’ at a U.N. Mark has always been fast on his feet: At an Obama news conference in 2014, he asked President Xi Jinping of China whether he would ease his country’s refusal to give visas to Times correspondents. Bush’s bailout of the banks during the financial crisis in 2008 and went on to brilliantly chronicle two American presidents. “He arrived in the bureau just in time to cover George W. “Mark is the International desk’s gain and Washington’s great loss,’’ said the Washington bureau chief, Elisabeth Bumiller. He is a 1987 graduate of Georgetown University, where he was editor of the college paper, The Hoya. He has reported from 70 countries on five continents, after beginning his career at the paper as a copy boy. Biden likely to enter term with deadlocked F.C.C. In his 26 years at The Times, he has been the bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, as well as the European economic correspondent. Britain will add retaliatory tariffs to American metal after Brexit. Mark is already a seasoned pro at working overseas. The Financial Times named his book, “Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power,” as a best book of 2016. Before that, he was our diplomatic correspondent, covering Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Boris Johnson, British Conservative Party politician who became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2019. Now, he will put his energy, passion and talent to the service of yet another critical assignment for The Times.Īnyone who follows American politics and foreign policy has benefited from Mark’s penetrating and elegant coverage as a correspondent at the White House, where he has worked since 2011. Mark is that rare correspondent who has already done it all, beautifully. A version of this article appears in print on, Section A, of the New York edition with the. Mark will be our new London bureau chief, with Ellen Barry returning to the United States to work for the National desk. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (NYTopinion) and Instagram. It is one of the most important, complicated and demanding stories in the Western world, and so when a singularly seasoned New York Times correspondent agreed to take it on, the International desk breathed a sigh of relief.
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