Barton Gellman graduated from Princeton University and received a master's degree in politics from University College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He worked as a special projects reporter for The Washington Post and won several notable awards as well as a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Cheney series. In 2002 he shared a Pulitzer for national reporting, and he has also earned honors from the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Gellman is a contributing editor at Time magazine, plus a senior research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU.