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John Dyer

Freelance Bulgaria Correspondent for Christian Science Monitor

John Dyer began his journalism career at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts. After earning graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and the California Institute for the Arts, he covered the New Jersey Statehouse for The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey.His Statehouse beat focused on taxes and public finance, but he also wrote about the scandals that led to the political implosion of former Governor James McGreevey. In 2005 he received a Fulbright scholarship to Bulgaria, where he taught at Sofia University and the American University in Bulgaria while freelancing for The Christian Science Monitor, the AP and other American and European newspapers. He also received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to write about the establishment of American military bases in Bulgaria and a grant from the American embassy to train young journalists in cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. His current interests include EU expansion into Eastern Europe and the Balkans and representations of classical history in the Balkans.