Ellen Barry

Ellen Barry (born April 11, 1971) is a reporter for The New York Times. She was the paper's chief international correspondent from 2017 to 2019, and South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi, India, from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as the Times' Moscow bureau chief from March 2011 to August 2013 and then served as its New England bureau chief. She now covers mental health.

Early life and education Ellen Barry was born on April 11, 1971, in Tarrytown, New York. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1993. While at Yale she was a reporter and editor for the Yale Daily News, and also won the Wallace Non-Fiction Prize and the Wright Memorial Prize for best essay by a senior. She joined The New York Times as a Metro reporter in January 2007 and became the Moscow correspondent for The Times in June 2008. In 2004 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for beat reporting on mental health. In 2020 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing for "The Jungle Prince of Delhi" on the Mahal family.