[2] Roy Gutman joined Newsday in January 1982 and served for eight years as national security reporter in Washington.
While European bureau chief, from 1989 to 1994, he reported on the downfall of the Polish, East German, and Czechoslovak regimes, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the first democratic elections in the former Eastern Bloc, and the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia.
https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/recipient/roy-gutman/ In 2018, the American Bar Association named him to receive the Francis Shattuck Security and Peace Award.
Gutman was previously employed by the Reuters news agency, serving in Bonn, Vienna, Belgrade, London, and Washington.
[4] In 1988, Simon & Schuster published his Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987.