Ellen Barry,

Ellen Barry is a reporter for The New York Times, with a focus on mental health. She has worked for the newspaper for 16 years in various roles including bureau chief in Moscow, Delhi and Boston, and as chief international correspondent in London. Her background includes growing up as a foreign service brat, moving every few years, mostly in Eastern Europe. Barry is committed to foregrounding private people and their stories while covering mental illness and under-resourced systems of care. She values protecting confidential sources and regularly speaks with individuals who need anonymity for their safety. Barry's work has included investigating legal challenges or probing into systems set up to provide care, such as prolonged grief as a disorder, trauma in soldiers and police officers, romance writers falsely reporting their own suicide, and fabrication of past achievements by a theater director. She speaks about the difficult parts of people's lives they share while covering mental illness and the importance of them telling their own stories. Barry is in contact via email, social media platforms like Twitter and Signal, LinkedIn, or through anonymous tips submitted to nytimes.com/tips.