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James Morrison

James Morrison

jmorrison@washingtontimes.com

James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

"We have a stake in one another's success. Thus, we have a stake in one another's politics," Ambassador John Bruton told the European Institute this week.

October 21, 2009

Embassy Row

The new Canadian ambassador arrived in Washington this week with an overriding mission to help pry open U.S. trade restrictions blocking America's most important international business partner from nearly $300 billion in economic stimulus projects.

October 20, 2009

Embassy Row

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will address the two-day U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference.

October 19, 2009

Embassy Row

Repeated terrorist attacks in their own countries are straining relations between the Afghan and Pakistan ambassadors in Washington.

October 13, 2009

Embassy Row

Michael Nazir-Ali, the Pakistani-born Anglican bishop of Rochester, England, and a member of the British House of Lords will address the Hudson Institute on Tuesday on apostasy, blasphemy and other Islamic laws.

October 12, 2009

Embassy Row

Gay advocates are praising President Obama for nominating an openly gay man to serve as ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, however, Samoan officials might not welcome the news because homosexuality is illegal in the South Pacific island nation.

October 9, 2009

Embassy Row

The Saudi ambassador accused al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden of deliberately recruiting more Saudis than from other Arab nations in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to try to drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

September 29, 2009

Embassy Row

Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, will meet with editors and reporters at The Washington Times on Monday.

September 28, 2009

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador in Poland criticized the construction of "fortresslike" American embassies throughout the world.

September 25, 2009