Jeffrey Gettleman
| Jeffrey Gettleman | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 22, 1971 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, St. Petersburg Times, Cherwell |
| Title | East Africa Bureau Chief for The New York Times |
| Spouse(s) | Courtenay Morris (m. 2005) |
Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American journalist. Since 2006, he has been the East Africa Bureau Chief for The New York Times.
Jeffrey was born in 1971, the son of Robert William Gettleman (b. 1943), a judge of the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and Joyce R. Gettleman, a psychotherapist with a private practice in Evanston. Gettleman's sister Lynn Gettleman Chehab is a physician.
Gettleman is married to Courtenay Morris, a former assistant public defender who is now a web producer for the Times. The couple first met while both were attending Cornell University. The wedding was held on October 29, 2005 at their home in Hoboken, New Jersey, with Gettleman's father officiating at the ceremony.
Gettleman graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1989, and Cornell University in 1994 with a B.A. in Philosophy. Initially, he did not know what he wanted to do after graduation, so took a leave of absence to back pack around the world which he says help set his life trajectory. However, when a professor suggested journalism as a profession, he scoffed at the idea, saying "That was the dumbest idea I had heard... who wants to work for a boring newspaper?”. Beginning in 1994, he was a communications officer for the Save the Children organization in Addis Ababa.
After his graduation from Cornell, Gettleman received a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he received a master's degree in Philosophy in June 1996. While at Oxford, he was the first American editor of Cherwell, the university's student newspaper.
Gettleman began his journalism career as a city hall and police reporter for the St. Petersburg Times from 1997–1998. In 1999, he transferred to the Los Angeles Times as a general assignment reporter. He became bureau chief in Atlanta two years later, and was also a war correspondent for the broadsheet in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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