1. Elisabeth Bumiller was born on May 15,1956 and is an American author and journalist who served as the Washington bureau chief for The New York Times from September 2015 until November 2024.
13 Facts About Elisabeth Bumiller
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Bumiller was born in Aalborg, Denmark to a Danish mother, Gunhild Bumiller Rose, and an American father, Theodore R Bumiller.
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Elisabeth Bumiller's mother was a nurse and her father an adventure-film photographer and producer.
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Elisabeth Bumiller then attended Northwestern University as an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism, graduating in 1977.
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Elisabeth Bumiller received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979.
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In 1985, Elisabeth Bumiller moved to India and continued to write for the Style section of the Post.
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In 1995, Elisabeth Bumiller joined her husband at the Times, as a general assignment metro reporter.
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From fall 1999 until 2001, Elisabeth Bumiller became New York City Hall bureau chief, where she covered the mayoral administration of Rudolph Giuliani and Giuliani's abortive 2000 bid for the US Senate against Hillary Clinton.
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In 2001, Elisabeth Bumiller was promoted to White House correspondent for the Times, serving in that role from September 10,2001, to 2006.
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In 2008, Elisabeth Bumiller covered the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain for the Times.
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From 2008 to early 2013, Elisabeth Bumiller served as Pentagon correspondent; in this role, she traveled with the Secretary of Defense and was embedded with US forces in Afghanistan.
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In September 2015, executive editor Dean Baquet of The New York Times announced that Elisabeth Bumiller would replace Carolyn Ryan as the Washington bureau chief.
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In fall 1979, Bumiller met Steven R Weisman, then the White House correspondent for The New York Times, and the two married in 1983 in an interfaith ceremony at their home in Georgetown.