ANN BLACKMAN

Correspondent
TIME Washington Bureau

Ann Blackman has worked in Washington for more than 20 years, spanning six administrations. Since June 1993, she has specialized in American social policy in TIME's Washington Bureau, covering education, welfare, housing, and children's health. She is also a specialist in Russian affairs, having served as a foreign correspondent for TIME in Moscow from 1987- 1990.

Blackman has also spent much of her careeer covering trend stories, particularly those affecting the family and children. In the past six months, she has done much of the reporting for TIME's cover stories stories on "Fatherhood"; "Cloning Humans"; and "Is Freud Dead?"; as well as pieces on bi-lingual education and neighborhoods for TIME's speciasl issue on immigration. Blackman also did much of the reporting for such cover stories as "The Backlash Against Feminism"; "The Education Crunch"; "The Simple Life"; "Crybabies and Busybodies"; and "Curing Infertility".

Blackman was in Moscow during the most dramatic changes in Soviet history. She travelled widely around the country, specializing in stories about the Russian economy and the plight of the Russian consumer, as well as problems facing Russian-Western joint ventures.

Blackman joined TIME in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in the magazine's Washington bureau. Before that, she worked for 15 years as a national correspondent for Associated Press covering many of the nation's most dramatic events: the Watergate hearings, presidential campaigns, political conventions. the Iranian hostage crisis and the assassination attempts on Governor George Wallace and President Reagan. She was an original member of The AP's Mod Squad, a team of reporters who reported on the general social chaos of the 1970s.

Before joining The AP in 1969, Blackman worked for The Boston Globe and The (Bergen) Record in Hackensack, New Jersey. She has degrees from Colby-Sawyer College (1966), The Sorbonne (1967), and the University of Connecticut (1968).

Blackman is married to Michael Putzel, White House correspondent for the Boston Globe. They have two children and live in Washington.