Marc Santora

Marc Santora is an experienced journalist who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia. He was previously based in London as an international news editor focused on breaking news events and earlier the bureau chief for East and Central Europe, based in Warsaw. Prior to that, he was a reporter on the Metro desk, covering New York’s crumbling subway system and breaking news from Hurricane Sandy to Pope Francis’s visit to the city. Marc has also reported extensively from the Middle East and Africa. In 2003, he covered the invasion of Iraq, and he returned in 2006-2007 to cover the hanging of Saddam Hussein, the spiraling sectarian violence, and the implementation of a new strategy by the American military popularly known as the “surge.” After returning from Iraq, Marc covered the Republican presidential primary, focusing mainly on Senator John McCain. He returned to Iraq for 16 months between 2009 and 2010. He has also reported from Africa for The Times. Marc was part of a reporting team that was a finalist for a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for its examination of the growing menace of diabetes, particularly among the poor and vulnerable. He has also worked as a correspondent in Hartford, Conn., chronicling the corruption investigation of Gov. John G. Rowland, who eventually resigned, pleaded guilty and served time in prison. He worked in Albany for a brief stint covering New York politics. Marc joined The Times in 1998 as a clerk in the Washington bureau and worked there for four years as an assistant to the columnist Maureen Dowd. He began as a reporter on the metropolitan desk in 2002. Before joining The Times, Marc worked at Roll Call, a weekly newspaper that covers Capitol Hill. While in college, he was a reporter at The News-Gazette, a newspaper in Lexington, Va. Marc Santora was born on November 24th, 1974 in Basking Ridge, NJ.