Deborah zabarenko biography

Deborah Zabarenko, environment correspondent and union leader in the United States, worked her last shift on Friday after 27 years with Reuters, thanking colleagues around the world as “the absolute best in this business”.

Zabarenko joined Reuters in 1986 after nearly six years with The Associated Press.

Beginning in New York and then moving to Washington, “I was hired as a general assignment reporter in a town where anybody with a lick of ambition had a specific beat. Stories nobody else wanted to cover fell to me, including the Iran-Contra trials of Oliver North and John Poindexter, the cocaine case against Washington Mayor Marion Barry, the first Gulf War, the U.S.

abortion debate, astronomy and the U.S. space program, Middle East peace talks, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, some presidential campaigns and the environment and climate change.” 

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