Richard C. Longworth

Richard C. Longworth is senior correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He specializes in international and economics reporting. He assumed this position in late 1991, after three years as the paper's Chief European Correspondent, based in London.

Longworth joined the Tribune in 1976 as economics correspondent and was financial editor and columnist before going to London. In 1960-76, he was a foreign correspondent for United Press International, based alternately in London, Moscow, Vienna and Brussels. In 1969-72, he was UPI's chief East European correspondent and from 1972 to 1976 UPI's European diplomatic correspondent. For UPI and the Chicago Tribune, Longworth has covered stories in more than 75 countries on five continents.A native of Iowa, Longworth was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He has won the Overseas Press Club award twice: In 1994 for a series on the UN and in 1997 for a series on the global economy, which was expanded into his book, Global Squeeze: the Coming Crisis for First World Nations.

Longworth was a guest scholar at Medill in the spring of 2001 and winner of the Northwestern University Alumni Merit Award in 2000. He and his wife, Barbara (NU 1958), have two grown children and live in Chicago.