Career
From 2008 to 2011, she and Bearak became bureau chiefs in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mississippi Dugger is the daughter of Jean and Ronnie Dugger, the founding editor of the influential Texas Observer.
From 2008 to 2011, she and Bearak became bureau chiefs in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mississippi Dugger is the daughter of Jean and Ronnie Dugger, the founding editor of the influential Texas Observer.
In 2006, Celia Dugger and Donald McNeil, Junior. won the Overseas Press Club award for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition, for their series "Diseases on the Brink." The same series was also honored with an Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award that year. She has won the George Polk Award for Journalism twice. In 1992 she won a James Aronson Award honorable mention.