Ellen Barry is the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 winning Moscow Bureau Chief for The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

. Barry is a 1993 graduate of Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 with a B.A. in English, where she was also a reporter and editor for the Yale Daily News

Yale Daily News

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, the nation's Oldest College Daily. While at Yale she was awarded the prestigious Wallace Non-Fiction Prize and the Wright Prize for best essay by a senior.
A huge email campaign started in Facebook against her controversial article on Nagorno-Karabakh War

Nagorno-Karabakh War

The Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the small enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan...

in The New York Times, which many Armenians believe was biased, promotes hatred and openly calls for war, as she claims "Azerbaijan can easily drive out Armenian forces".