Carlotta Gall
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Carlotta Gall | |
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Occupation(s) | journalist, author |
Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (book) |
Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author. She covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The New York Times for twelve years. She was also their Istanbul bureau chief covering Turkey, and now covers the war in Ukraine.
Career summary
Daughter of veteran Scottish journalist Sandy Gall, Carlotta Gall 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 publications (USA Today, Newsweek and The New York Times).
In 1996 she co-authored with
In 1998 she moved to the
Publication and documentary
Gall is featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side (2007). She was the first journalist to report the story of two Afghans who died in US custody at Bagram air base (Parwan Detention Facility). The case of an Afghan taxi driver beaten to death in 2002 while in US-military custody forms the heart of the documentary's examination of the abuses committed during the detainment and interrogation of political prisoners. Gall investigated the death of cab driver Dilawar, officially declared by the military to be from natural causes, but uncovered what she considers to be incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
In 2014 in her book
Bibliography
- —; ISBN 978-0-330-35075-4.
- —; de Waal, Thomas (1998). Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. New York: ISBN 978-0-8147-2963-2.
- — (2014). ISBN 978-0-544-53856-6.