[1] Wines was previously the Times bureau chief in China, Johannesburg and Moscow.
[2] Wines graduated from Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
Wines covered municipal and state government, politics and education for The Louisville Times from 1974 to 1981.
He wrote about regulatory affairs and the U.S. Department of Justice for National Journal magazine from 1981 to 1984.
[citation needed] He has been bureau chief at international postings for The New York Times since 2002.