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Carlotta Gall
Journalist

Carlotta Gall

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Reporting on Afghanistan, Pakistan and conflicts across the former Soviet Union.

Chechnya books · The Wrong Enemy

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Carlotta Gall

Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author associated with The New York Times.

Early life

Languages and journalism

Read Russian and French at Newnham College, Cambridge, then studied international relations and journalism at City University in London.

Career

  1. 1994

    The Moscow Times

    Began reporting from Moscow.

  2. 1998

    Caucasus reporting

    Worked from Baku for the Financial Times and The Economist.

  3. 1999–2001

    Balkans

    Reported for The New York Times.

  4. 2001–2013

    Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Covered the region for the newspaper.

Selected work

Chechnya books

Co-authored accounts with Thomas de Waal.

The Wrong Enemy

Examined the war in Afghanistan.

Beyond work

A reporting family

Her father Sandy Gall was a journalist whose work included Afghanistan. Their careers form two generations of British reporting on the country.

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