Ben Gittleson is a reporter-producer at ABC News in Washington, where he covers the White House. He previously served as an international assignment editor on ABC News' Foreign Desk in New York. He covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a campaign digital journalist for ABC News, and prior to the election, he coordinated coverage of breaking news as an assignment editor at ABC News in New York. From 2011 to 2013, he was a freelance journalist based in Cairo. He has reported from Egypt, Iraq and Jordan for various publications, including The International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and The Daily Beast. He served as an intern at Al Jazeera English's Cairo bureau from early 2012 through the Egyptian presidential elections that year.
A 2011-2012 fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Ben received a B.A. from Tufts University, where he majored in international relations and Arabic. At Tufts, he served as the editor-in-chief of The Tufts Daily, Tufts' independent student newspaper. He was also a lead editor of Insights, the journal of the New Initiative for Middle East Peace at Tufts’ Institute for Global Leadership.
Ben's work has appeared across ABC News' television, radio, and digital platforms, as well as on ESPN.com, The National, EnergyWire, The Huffington Post, and Salon and in other publications.
A 2011-2012 fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Ben received a B.A. from Tufts University, where he majored in international relations and Arabic. At Tufts, he served as the editor-in-chief of The Tufts Daily, Tufts' independent student newspaper. He was also a lead editor of Insights, the journal of the New Initiative for Middle East Peace at Tufts’ Institute for Global Leadership.
Ben's work has appeared across ABC News' television, radio, and digital platforms, as well as on ESPN.com, The National, EnergyWire, The Huffington Post, and Salon and in other publications.
