Roy W. Gutman is currently a diplomatic correspondent for Newsday. He joined Newsday in January 1982 and served for eight years as National Security reporter in Washington. While European bureau chief from late 1989 to 1994, he reported the downfall of the Polish, East German, and Czechoslovak regimes, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the first democratic elections in the former East Bloc, and the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. He currently covers the issues and institutions of international security in Washington, DC. In 1993, he received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Bosnia coverage, as well as the Polk Award for best foreign reporting, the Selden Ring award for Investigative Reporting, the National Headliner Award Best of Show prize, the New York Deadline Club Investigative Reporting prize, the Heywood Broun Award of The Newspaper Guild and the Hal Boyle Award of the Overseas Press Club. His reporting on Serb atrocities in Bosnia also earned him the Special Human Rights in Media award of the International League for Human Rights and the Newsday Publisher Award for Exceptional Achievement, both in 1992.

Gutman was previously employed by Reuters News Agency for 11 years, and served in Bonn, Vienna, Belgrade, London, and Washington. He served as bureau chief for Yugoslavia, State Department correspondent, and chief Capital Hill reporter.

Simon & Schuster published his book, Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987, in 1988, and Touchstone published the paperback edition in 1989. Banana Diplomacy was named one of the best 200 books of 1988 by the New York Times and the best American book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement, London, England. Macmillan published A Witness to Genocide, a collection of the award-winning articles in September, 1993. Other editions were published in Britain, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Croatia, France, and Bosnia. A Macedonian edition is in the works.

Gutman is director of the Crimes of War Project, based at American University, an attempt to increase public awareness of the laws of war. He is co-editing Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, which W.W. Norton will publish in July, 1999.

Gutman is fluent in German and has conversational ability in Serbo-Croatian. Born in 1944, he has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Haverford College awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1995.

Roy, his wife, Elizabeth and daughter, Caroline, reside in Herndon, VA.