Alissa Johannsen Rubin is an American journalist who writes about war. She is of Jewish descent.[1] She is the bureau chief for The New York Times in Paris. In 2016 she received a Pulitzer Prize for her stories about women in Afghanistan. [2]
Rubin worked for The Congressional Quarterly, The Wichita Eagle, and The American Lawyer magazine. [2]
In 1997, Rubin went to work at The Los Angeles Times, where she wrote about Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.[2]
In 2007 she went to work for the The New York Times, where she wrote about Iraq and France. She worked in the Baghdad bureau as a journalist, and then she became chief. In 2009, she became chief of the bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan.[2]