Carlotta Gall

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Carlotta Gall
Occupation	journalist, author
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times, Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (book)

Carlotta Gall is a British journalist who covers Afghanistan^[1] and Pakistan for The New York Times.

[edit] Biography

Carlotta Gall is a daughter of the British journalist Sandy Gall and Eleanor Gall. She was educated in England and read Russian and French at Newnham College, Cambridge. She received a Masters from City University, London in International Relations and Journalism.

She started her newspaper career with The Moscow Times, in Moscow, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union. She also freelanced for British papers (The Independent, The Times, and The Sunday Times) as well as American papers (USA Today, Newsweek and The New York Times).

She is the co-author with Thomas de Waal, of Chechnya: A Small Victorious War, Macmillan, UK, 1996, also published as Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus, New York University Press, U.S.A., 1997. The book was awarded the James Cameron prize in the UK in 1997. Gall was awarded the Kurt Schork award for international freelance journalism in 2002, the Interaction award for outstanding international reporting in 2005, and has just been awarded the Weintal Award for diplomatic reporting by Georgetown University.

In 1998 she moved to the Financial Times and The Economist reporting on the Caucasus and Central Asia from Baku, Azerbaijan. From 1999 to 2001 Gall worked in the Balkans for the New York Times, covering the wars in Kosovo, Serbia and Macedonia and developments in Bosnia and the rest of the former Yugoslavia. Since 2001 she has been based in Afghanistan, and today is a reporter with The New York Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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• Gall, Carlotta and Thomas de Waal. Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. New York: New York University Press, 1998. ISBN 0814729630 ISBN 978-0814729632

Carlotta Gall was also the first reporter to report the story of two Afghans who died in US custody at Bagram air base. The case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death in 2002 while in U.S. military custody forms the heart of this examination of the abuses committed during the detainment and interrogation of political prisoners. When New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall investigates the death of cab driver Dilawar--officially declared by the military to be from natural causes--she uncovers incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

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