Anne Garrels is a roving foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk. She earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq. Her vivid, around-the-clock reports from the city under siege gave listeners remarkable insight into the impact of the war on Baghdad and those left in the city.

As U.S. and British forces advanced on the city, Garrels remained at her post, describing the scene on the streets and reactions from those she encountered. Her experiences in Baghdad are chronicled in Naked in Baghdad. For her work in Iraq, Garrels was awarded a 2003 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.

Garrels has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East and continues to report on a wide range of international issues with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. She regularly spends time in the newly independent states that once made up the Soviet Union, covering diverse stories -- from social and economic challenges to military and cultural developments. Her reports can be heard on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Weekend Edition Saturday,” and “Weekend Edition Sunday.”

From Tiananmen Square to the battlegrounds of Chechnya, from Bosnia to Kosovo and Israel, Garrels combines experience in the field with a sharp understanding of the policy debates in Washington. Filing stories on the events leading up to the Gulf War, she was part of the NPR team that won a prestigious Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the war. She was awarded the Dupont-Columbia Award for her coverage of the former Soviet Union as well as the Whitman Bassow Award for a series she did on water issues around the globe.

Before joining NPR, Garrels was the State Department correspondent for NBC News. Prior to that she worked at ABC News. She served three years as Moscow bureau chief and correspondent until she was expelled in 1982. She also covered the Eastern Bloc, particularly the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the crackdown of martial law and was the network's Central American correspondent. She has spent a year as an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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