Patrick Kingsley (journalist)

Patrick Kingsley
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe New York Times

Patrick Kingsley is a British journalist who is the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times.[1] He previously served as a foreign correspondent for The Guardian.[2]

Early life and education

Kingsley studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Career

Kingsley joined The Guardian in 2010. He was appointed the paper's first-ever migration correspondent in 2015.[3]

He was named foreign affairs journalist of the year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards for his coverage of the European refugee crisis.[4]

He authored The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis, which was published in 2016 by Guardian Faber.[5]

According to his online biography, Kingsley speaks Arabic and is studying Hebrew.[6]

The New York Times appended a 266-word editor's note to a 2021 article by Kingsley about Palestinian professor Refaat Alareer which said that Kingsley's article "did not accurately reflect" Alareer's views of Israeli poetry.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Patrick Kingsley". The New York Times. 15 February 2019. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Patrick Kingsley". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  3. ^ White, Aidan; Ann Singleton (2017). "Mixed messages: Media coverage of migration and fatalities | Journalists doing their job: Excellence in telling the migration story". Ethical Journalism Network. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. ^ Media staff (1 December 2015). "Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger honoured in British Journalism Awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  5. ^ "The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis". guardianbookshop.com. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  6. ^ Slackman, Michael; Jim Yardley; Herbert Buchsbaum; Marjorie Olster; Greg Winter (29 October 2020). "Our Next Jerusalem Bureau Chief". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  7. ^ Hanau, Shira (15 December 2021). "NYT walks back story on Israeli poetry in Gaza; it needed 'more extensive reporting'". Times of Israel. Retrieved 23 October 2023.