Chris Allbritton is a well-known journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering some of the biggest stories of the last decade, including the conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan. His work on technology, Islam, the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, and travel has appeared in Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newark Star-Ledger, Singapore Straight-Times, and Der Spiegel. As bureau chief for Reuters in Pakistan, he oversaw the coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden and broke stories on Pakistani cooperation with the U.S. in its drone war there.
In addition to two years teaching at NYU and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he is a new media pioneer, having started the award-winning blog, Back-to-Iraq.com, in 2002, which helped start the now-common crowd-funding model for quality journalism. Chris specializes in writing, editing and photography. He holds an MS in journalism from Columbia University in New York and a BA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2008-9, he was awarded a Stanford University John S. Knight Fellowship.
