Greg Myre
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Greg Myre | |
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Born | John Gregory Myre |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, Associated Press |
Spouse | Jennifer Griffin |
Greg Myre is an American journalist and an NPR national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community. Before joining NPR, he was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and The New York Times for 20 years. He reported from more than 50 countries and covered a dozen wars and conflicts.
Myre is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. He has appeared as an analyst on CNN, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, and Al Jazeera.
Career
After four years in the U.S. with the Associated Press, Myre was first posted abroad to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1987 and covered Nelson Mandela's release from prison and the end of apartheid. He was later based in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he frequently traveled to neighboring Afghanistan and documented the rise of the Taliban. He was one of the first Western reporters to meet Taliban leaders in 1995.
Myre was also posted to Cyprus and worked throughout the Middle East, including extended trips to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He went to Moscow from 1996 to 1999, covering the early days of Vladimir Putin as Russia's leader.
He was based in
During his two decades abroad, he covered wars throughout Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and the Balkans.[1]
Notable articles
In 1990, Myre witnessed Nelson Mandela's release from prison and was among the journalists who met with Mandela on his first full day out of prison. On the 25th anniversary of Mandela's release from prison in 2013, Myre wrote an article for NPR recounting the day, titled "The Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out Of Prison".[2]
In 2016, Myre reported for NPR on how Syria's war had created millions of refugees, in a video titled "Syria: The Worst Humanitarian Crisis Of The 21st Century".[3]
While based in Jerusalem, Myre covered all the major developments in the
Personal
Myre is married to
Myre and Griffin co-wrote This Burning Land: Lessons From The Front Lines Of The Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (
Myre is the son of Carole and John Myre from Chesterfield, Missouri. His mother is a psychotherapist and his father is a retired director of risk management in St. Louis. His father also authored a book, Live Safely in a Dangerous World.
Myre is a graduate of Yale University, where he played varsity football and basketball.[10]
References
- ^ "Greg Myre". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ Myre, Greg (June 27, 2013). "The Day Nelson Mandela Walked Out Of Prison" – via NPR.
- YouTube
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ " WEDDINGS: Jennifer Griffin And Greg Myre." The New York Times, 2 October 1994.
- ^ "Sharing a bed and a beat on opposite sides of the news spectrum". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ "Starting A Family, Reporting From A 'Burning Land'". NPR. 15 April 2011.
- ^ "Weddings; Jennifer Griffin And Greg Myre". New York Times. Retrieved 10 September 2013.