Christina Goldbaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning international correspondent for The New York Times and currently serves as the Times' Beirut bureau chief, leading coverage of Lebanon and Syria.
Christina joined the Times in 2018, reporting from New York and later southern Africa. In 2021, she deployed to the Kabul bureau, where she served as a correspondent and later Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief. Before coming to the Times, she was a freelance correspondent in East Africa, reporting for Foreign Policy, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic among other publications. She lived for a year in Mogadishu, Somalia, where her investigative reporting exposed civilian casualties from U.S. military operations.
Christina has received National Press Club, Frontline Club, and Livingston awards for her reporting from Somalia. She has also been part of two Times teams honored by the Overseas Press Club for their coverage of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and of the 2024 war in Lebanon and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. In 2025, Christina and two colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their series examining 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
Citation, Kim Wall Award, Overseas Press Club – 2026
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 – 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