Biography of Anne Garrels
From Tiananmen Square to the battlegrounds of Chechnya, from Bosnia to Kosovo and Israel, Garrels combines experience in the field with a sharp understanding of the policy debates in Washington. In 1990, Garrels reported from Saudi Arabia, filing stories on the events leading up to the Gulf War. She was part of the NPR team that won a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 1992 for coverage of the war. In 1996 she won the duPont-Columbia Award for her coverage of the former Soviet Union. In 1999, the Overseas Press Club honored Garrels with the Whitman Bassow Award for a series she did on water issues around the globe. Most recently, Garrels served as the only female correspondent reporting from Baghdad during the war with Iraq.
Before joining National Public Radio in 1988, Garrels was the State Department correspondent for NBC News. Prior to that, Garrels worked for a decade for ABC News in a variety of positions. She served three years as Moscow bureau chief and correspondent until she was expelled in 1982. She also covered the Eastern Bloc, particularly the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the crackdown of martial law. From 1984 to 1985, Garrels was the network's Central American correspondent.
In 1996, Garrels spent a year as an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Garrels graduated from Harvard University in 1972.
(Bio information courtesy of NPR)
