Patrick Kingsley

I’m the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. I lead our coverage of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, overseeing a team of reporters and researchers spread across the region.

What I Cover

I cover Israeli and Palestinian politics, religion, culture, diplomacy and society. It’s a wide and diverse role that includes leading major news coverage about war; analysis of Israeli and Palestinian politics; investigations into violence and corruption; profiles of Israeli and Palestinian artists, singers and authors; as well as descriptive dispatches highlighting the texture and variety of Israeli and Palestinian life. I’m particularly interested in people and places that straddle the religious and ethnic divides that this place is typically known for — like the Palestinian tech worker who commutes each day to Tel Aviv, or the religious Israeli whose songs are feted by secular crowds.

My Background

I’ve been an international reporter for more than a decade, reporting from more than 50 countries and territories. I’ve been based mostly in the Middle East, living in Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem, and I also lived in Berlin and Istanbul. For much of my career, I focused on forced migration: I wrote a nonfiction book — “The New Odyssey” — about people trying to reach Europe by land and sea, and I lectured about migration at the universities of Cambridge, Harvard and Oxford. I grew up in Britain, studied English literature at Cambridge, and spent seven years as a reporter for The Guardian before joining The Times in January 2017. My second book, “How to Be Danish,” was an exploration of life and culture in Denmark.

Journalistic Ethics

As a reporter for The Times, I’m committed to upholding the values and standards outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. Among other things, that means I don’t associate with any political group or partisan cause. My aim as a journalist is to explain and reveal, not to advocate. I strive to be fair to both my subjects and readers: rigorous in my research, exact in my writing and exacting in my questions. I am led by my reporting, not my preconceptions.

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