Alexei Barrionuevo

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Alexei Barrionuevo is an American news journalist who has been the Southern Cone bureau chief for the American newspaper The New York Times, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since August 2007. Barrionuevo previously was a national business correspondent for The Times based in Chicago, from 2005 to 2007.

[edit] Career

Barrionuevo was born and raised in Illinois and graduated from the University of California with a degree in Political Science.

Prior to joining The Times he worked in Brussels as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering European anti-trust, regulation and integration of Eastern Europe into the European Union. He began at The Journal as a reporter covering global energy from the Houston bureau, where he was part of The Journal's award-winning coverage of the fall of Enron. He also briefly served as a correspondent for the paper in Turkey and Iraq.

Barrionuevo began his professional career as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where he covered education and general news from 1993 to 1997.

[edit] Notes

Jack Shafer of Slate has accused Barrionuevo of plagiarism twice.^[1][2] Some of the accusations against Barrionuevo are disputed.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ More Plagiarism, Same Times Reporter
2. ^ A New York Times story helps itself to two lines from a Miami Herald piece
3. ^ Slate.com