Susan Chira
Susan Deborah Chira | |
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| Born | New York City |
| Status | married |
| Occupation(s) | journalist and author |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; A Mother's Place (book) |
| Spouse | Michael Shapiro |
| Children | two |
Susan Deborah Chira (born in New York City) is an American journalist. She has been foreign editor of The New York Times since 2004.
She was raised in Rye, NY and attended Phillips Andover Academy, in Andover, MA, where she graduated in 1977. She received her BA at Harvard University in 1981, graduating summa cum laude. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
While at Harvard, she was an editor of the Harvard Crimson.
Chira joined The New York Times in 1981. She was the Times 's correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo from 1984 to 1989.
She has also been:
- metropolitan reporter at bureaus in Albany and Stamford
- national education correspondent
- deputy editor, Foreign desk
- editor, The Week in Review[1]
- editorial director of book development
Family
Chira is married to Michael Shapiro[2], a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. They have two children, Eliza and Jay.
Bibliography
- A Mother's Place: Taking the Debate About Working Mothers Beyond Guilt and Blame. New York: Harper, 1998. ISBN 0060173270 ISBN 978-0060173272
- Cautious Revolutionaries: Occupation Planners and Japan's Post-War Land Reform. Agricultural Policy Research Center, 1982. ASIN: B0006EBHJS
Notes
- ^ The New York Times Ask a Reporter Q&A - Susan Chira
- ^ " Michael Shapiro Wed To Susan Chira in Rye." The New York Times, 3 September 1984.
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