Christina Goldbaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning international correspondent for The New York Times, currently serving as the Times’ Beirut bureau chief leading coverage of Lebanon and Syria. 

Christina reported from New York and southern Africa for the Times before joining the Kabul bureau in 2021 where she served as a correspondent and later Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief. Before joining the Times in 2018, Christina was a freelance correspondent in East Africa, reporting for Foreign Policy, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic among others. She lived for a year in Mogadishu, Somalia where her investigative reporting exposed civilian casualties from U.S. military operations. 

Christina received National Press Club, Frontline Club and Livingston awards for her work in Somalia. She has been part of two Times teams that received honors from the Overseas Press Club for coverage of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan as well as the 2024 war in Lebanon and fall of the Assad regime in Syria. In 2025, Christina and two colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their series on the causes of the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan. 

Originally from Washington D.C., she holds a B.A. in political science from Tufts University. 

Awards & Accolades

The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting – 2025

The Hal Boyle Award, Overseas Press Club – 2024 

The Daniel Pearl Award, South Asian Journalists Association – 2024

The Hal Boyle Award, Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle – 2021

The Gerald Loeb Award for Visual Storytelling – 2021

Livingston Award for International Reporting – 2018

Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence, The National Press Club – 2018

The Frontline Club’s  Print Journalism Award – 2018