Northwestern University

Columbia University

at The Wall Street Journal

I work with my wife, Candice Hughes, in a startup that offers editing and mentoring for journalists seeking to publish their work. Our services include help with long-form articles, blogs, podcasts, books, videos and newsletters, and advice on journalistic practices for accuracy and fairness.

Veracity Media Consulting

Chief Editor

Worked on an elite team of senior editors responsible for pre-publication review of sensitive reporting for online and print-edition articles, podcasts, photos, videos and social media; resolution of post-publication complaints; and ethics training for the Journal's worldwide staff. Worked with editors overseeing reportage of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine to reinforce standards of accuracy and impartial coverage. Led an overhaul of the Journal's style guide, updating and adding entries on such sensitive topics as race, ethnicity, immigration, terrorism and gender identity.

The Wall Street Journal

Deputy Standards Editor - International

I led a team of reporters covering Spain and Portugal at the peak of the euro debt crisis.
I served for seven weeks in 2015 as interim chief of the Middle East Bureau's 14 reporters.

Madrid Bureau Chief

I reported news from Russia and other former Soviet republics
On temporary assignment, I reported from Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Libya during Arab Spring revolts in 2011

Reporter

I led a team of reporters covering Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

Los Angeles Times

Jerusalem Bureau Chief

In an interim role, I led a team of reporters covering the Iraq war and the trial of Saddam Hussein. I managed a support staff of about 40 Iraqi translators, technicians, drivers and security guards.

Baghdad Bureau Chief

I led a team of reporters covering Mexico and Central America until my departure for a temporary assignment in Baghdad in August 2005.
I worked with the Times bureau in Bogota to help win the release of a reporter and a photographer held captive by leftist rebels in Colombia.
I went on temporary assignment to Rome to help report on the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.

Mexico Bureau Chief

I reported news from Italy, the Vatican, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. I helped cover breaking news on Russia's economic meltdown in 1998, a major earthquake in Turkey and war in Kosovo in 1999, and political upheaval in Serbia in 2000.

Rome Bureau Chief

I led a team of reporters covering the former Soviet Union in the aftermath of its collapse. I covered the outbreak and early years of war in Chechnya.

Reporter and Bureau Chief

Intensive Russian language studies in preparation for reporting assignment in the former Soviet Union. Attained professional proficiency.

Professional development

I covered the brutal Cold War proxy battles in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and also reported from other Central American countries, Cuba and Colombia. I chronicled years of negotiations that ended the region's guerrilla wars and led to the election that brought down Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

Managua Bureau Chief

I covered Bolivia and General Augusto Pinochet's Chile and supervised reporters for AP's Spanish-language service in both countries.

The Associated Press

Bureau Chief

I reported from Mexico and Central America as Cold War proxy battles were breaking out in the region.

I covered Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay during the "dirty war," when those countries were under military rule.

I was part of a staff that edited international news

Editor

I was part of a staff that covered New York as the city was going broke

Richard Boudreaux