Schmitt, Eric

Eric Schmitt is a senior writer and Washington correspondent for The New York Times, who covers domestic and internationalism terrorism issues. For 20 years, he has covered military and national security affairs for The Times. Since the 9/11 attacks, he has made more than a dozen reporting trips to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He graduated from Williams College in 1982 and received a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in 2006-07. He was twice a member of a team of New York Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife and two daughters.