Susan Chira

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credits = "The New York Times"; "A Mother's Place" (book)
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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 in 1981, graduating summa cum laude. She is a member of Phi Beta Kapa.

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 [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Susan_Chira.html "The New York Times Ask a Reporter Q&A - Susan Chira] ]
* editorial director of book development

Family

Chira is married to Michael Shapiro [" Michael Shapiro Wed To Susan Chira in Rye." "The New York Times", 3 September 1984.] , a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. They have two children, Eliza and Jake.

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

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