Elaine F. Sciolino is an American journalist who was the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times from 2002 to 2008.
Sciolino joined the Times in 1984. Previous posts at the Times include:
senior reporter, Washington bureau, focusing on national security and cultural issues
chief diplomatic correspondent
reporter focusing on the Central Intelligence Agency
diplomatic correspondent
United Nations bureau chief
metropolitan reporter
In October 2007, the Times announced that Sciolino would be succeeded by Steven Erlanger as Paris bureau chief in early 2008. Sciolino would become a foreign correspondent focusing on terrorism abroad, based in Paris.
In 2005, Sciolino did reporting on a newly discovered 1946 document in which the Vatican instructed its representatives in France after World War II to prevent baptized Jewish children from being returned to their families.
A daughter of Anthony R. Sciolino (d. 2002) and his wife, the former Jeanette Limeri (d. 2005), Sciolino was born in Buffalo, New York and has two siblings, Thomas and Marianne. She is married to Andrew Plump, an attorney, with whom she has two daughters, Alessandra and Gabriela.
She received her B.A. from Canisius College in 1970 and her M.A. from New York University in 1971.
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. (hardcover) ASIN: B000AO4E3U (trade paperback) ISBN 0471542997 ISBN 978-0471542995
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. New York: The Free Press, 2000. (Reissued edition, 2005) ISBN 0743284798 ISBN 978-0743284790