Maria Balinska (born 1960) is an American journalist and author who is the Executive Director of the
US-UK Fulbright Commission.[2]
Born in
New Jersey, US, Balinska joined the Fulbright Commission after serving as part of the launch team for The Conversation, later the Managing Editor and subsequently Editor-in-Chief.[3]
Balinska attended 10 schools in five countries before attending
Princeton University. According to her, she became interested in journalism after the fall of
Communism, reporting on the transformation of Poland as a freelance journalist.[4] She spent a decade as a radio producer and then Editor World Current Affairs at
BBC.[5][6] In 2010 she was a
Nieman Fellow.[7]
In 2011, she founded Latitude News.[1][8] In 2008 she published The Bagel, which presents a history of the
bagel, tracing its roots from ancient Rome to Poland to its flourishing in America.[9][10][11]
Books
The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread: Maria Balinska, Yale University Press, 2009,
ISBN9780300158205
References
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abRock, Maya (January 16, 2013).
"Linking local and global news". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton Alumni Association. Retrieved May 27, 2024.