Eric Lipton is a reporter at the New York Times. Lipton joined the Times in 1999, covering the final years of the administration of New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, as well as the 2001 terror attacks. He is co-author of the 2003 book City in the Sky, the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center. He is now based in New York Times' Washington bureau, where he is an investigative reporter who has written about homeland security.

Prior to working for the New York Times, he worked at the Washington Post and the Hartford Courant. He was the co-author of a series of stories on the Hubble Space Telescope that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism. Lipton was also a finalist for the Livingston Award

Livingston Award

The Livingston Awards are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting...

 for young journalists.

Lipton is a graduate of University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...

. In 2008, he was the recipient of an honorary degree from University of Vermont. The April 2009 issue of Esquire magazine listed him in its 'The List of Men: Sixty-Six Guys to Emulate'.

Lipton lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Elham Dehbozorgi.

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• http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/eric_lipton/index.html?inline=nyt-per&&&
• http://www.uvm.edu/~cmncmnt/?Page=lipton.html
• http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/75636/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/fashion/weddings/18DEHBOZORGI.html