Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956)[1] is an American author and journalist who served as the Washington bureau chief for The New York Times from September 2015 until November 2024.

[3] Bumiller was criticized by Eric Boehlert and Glenn Greenwald for failing to question George W. Bush on the run-up to the Iraq War.

Reflecting on a March 6, 2003, presidential press conference before the invasion of Iraq, Bumiller said: "I think we were very deferential because ... it's live, it's very intense, it's frightening to stand up there.

"[9] Beginning in June 2006, Bumiller took a one-year leave of absence from the Times to write a biography of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

[15] Jacob Heilbrunn, reviewing the book in The New York Times, wrote that Bumiller "brings a keen eye to Rice, probing not only her tenure as a policy maker and her close ties to George W. Bush, but also her personal and professional past.

[16][17] From 2008 to early 2013, Bumiller served as Pentagon correspondent; in this role, she traveled with the Secretary of Defense and was embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

[20] In September 2015, executive editor Dean Baquet of The New York Times announced that Bumiller would replace Carolyn Ryan as the Washington bureau chief.

[20] In fall 1979, Bumiller met Steven R. Weisman, then the White House correspondent for The New York Times,[3] and the two married in 1983 in an interfaith ceremony at their home in Georgetown.