Celia W. Dugger
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Celia Williams Dugger is an American
United States
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 journalist who works for The New York Times
The New York Times
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as a foreign correspondent in South Africa
South Africa
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Along with her husband Barry Bearak
Barry Bearak
Barry Leon Bearak is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and professor of journalism who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He also taught journalism as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate...

 - currently a New York Times staff writer and visiting professor at Columbia University
Columbia University
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 - Dugger served as co-bureau chief of the New York Times South Asia bureau in New Delhi
New Delhi
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 from 1998 to 2002. In 2008, she and Bearak became bureau chiefs in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
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, South Africa
South Africa
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.

Ms. Dugger is the daughter of Jean and Ronnie Dugger. Mr. Dugger is the founding editor of the influential Texas Observer.
The Texas Observer
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Awards

In 2006, Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil, Jr.
Donald McNeil, Jr.
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 won the Overseas Press Club
Overseas Press Club
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 award for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition, for their series "Diseases on the Brink." The same series was also honored with an Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
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 that year.

She has won the George Polk Award for Journalism twice.

In 1992 she won a James Aronson Award
James Aronson Award
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 honorable mention.

Personal life

Dugger and Bearak live in Johannesburg, South Africa; they have two sons, Sam and Max. Dugger has traveled all over Africa, South America and Asia covering poverty and health.
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