Melissa Eddy

Melissa Eddy covers German business and economics for The New York Times. She has reported on Germany since arriving in Frankfurt in 2000, for a decade with The Associated Press, before moving to the Times to cover general news, politics and culture. During her tenure in the German-speaking world, Melissa has covered every major story, from the resignation of Helmut Kohl to Angela Merkel’s 16 years in power; from the European debt crisis to the energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the arrival of more than 1 million migrants and their ongoing integration. A native of Minnesota and a graduate of Columbia University’s Journalism School, and Bucknell University, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellow for Young Journalists in Germany grant in 1996-97. She sits on the boards of the RIAS Berlin Commission and the German Foreign Press Association, Verein der Ausländische Presse.