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Barbara Crossette (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and author. In a long career at The New York Times she served as an editor and as the paper’s chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She was the Times’ United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001.
Crossette, now United Nations correspondent for The Nation, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association.