BARRY SHLACHTER

Barry Shlachter served more than a dozen years as a foreign correspondent in Asia and Africa for The Associated Press. After returning to the United States on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, he settled in Texas where he was a reporter, editor and beer columnist at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 28 years. In 2002, he was named Star Reporter of Texas by the Austin Headliner's Club and won the Dallas Press Club award for best reporter's portfolio, following his 9/11 coverage in New York and Afghanistan.