Anthony R. DePalma (born June 16, 1952) is an American author, journalist and educator who was a foreign correspondent and reporter for The New York Times for 22 years.
In 1978, he joined the Center for Analysis of Public Issues in Princeton, N.J.; he was an editor of the New Jersey Reporter magazine.
DePalma joined The New York Times in 1986, covering housing, regional politics, and higher education, before being assigned to the foreign news staff in 1993 as correspondent in Mexico City.
There he covered the debate over NAFTA,[5][6] the Zapatista uprising,[7] the assassination of the ruling party presidential candidate, the 1994-95 peso crisis, and the advent of democracy in Mexico.
In Canada, he covered natural disasters, the Quebec sovereignty movement, political issues[8] and the creation of the Arctic territory of Nunavut.
[9][10] In 2000, DePalma was named International Business Correspondent for The Times, covering North, Central and South America.
In 2010, FT Science, a division of Pearson PLC, published City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11,[1][20] which The Chicago Sun-Times named one of the best non-fiction books of 2010.