Mark Landler
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Mark Aurel Landler is an American journalist who has been a White House Correspondent 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...

, based in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, since March 2011.

Career

Landler graduated from Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 with a B.S. in international affairs, where he served as the editor-in-chief of The Hoya
The Hoya
The Hoya, the oldest and largest student newspaper of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, was founded in 1920. The Hoya prints an edition every Tuesday and Friday during the academic year and has a circulation of 6,500...

. Landler began his career at the Times in 1987 as a copy boy.

From 1990 to 1995, he was a reporter and media editor at Business Week.

In 1995, Landler was hired by the Times as a financial reporter, covering the media business and telecommunications. From 1997-98, he was a Reuter Fellow at Oxford University.

Landler was Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 bureau chief for the Times from 1998 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008, he was European Economic Correspondent, based in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2009 to 2011, he was the newspaper's Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

. He has reported for the Times from 67 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Personal

Landler is married and lives with his wife, Angela Tung, and their daughter and son in the Washington area.

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