Felicity Barringer

Felicity Barringer covers the environment for the National desk of the New York Times. Prior to that she was the media reporter, covering the newspaper industry, the rise of online news, and the economic and journalistic developments in the news business. Barringer joined The New York Times as a contributing correspondent in Moscow in 1986, reporting on the political and cultural upheavals of the Gorbachev era. From 1989 through June 1993, Barringer covered demographics and social policy from Washington. From August 1993 through March 1995, she was deputy editor of The Week in Review. She has also written for Columbia Journalism Review, Art News, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. She is also the author of the book, Flight from Sorrow, a biographical study of a survivor of Nazi Germany and the camps of Stalin’s Soviet Union, published by Atheneum in 1984.