Clyde Haberman is an American journalist who has contributed to The New York Times in various capacities since 1977.
11 Facts About Clyde Haberman
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Clyde Haberman is a graduate of The Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York.
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Clyde Haberman was drafted by the US Army in 1968, serving two years, first in Georgia, then in Germany.
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Clyde Haberman began his association with The New York Times as a copy boy in 1964 and then as City College of New York correspondent.
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Clyde Haberman was fired by Abe Rosenthal in 1966 after sneaking a fictional college award and awardee into the Times.
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Clyde Haberman then worked at the New York Post, returning to the Times in 1977.
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Clyde Haberman's assignments included staff editor of The Week in Review; Metro reporter; City Hall bureau chief; and, from 1982 to 1995, foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Rome, and bureau chief in Jerusalem.
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Clyde Haberman wrote "NYC", a twice-a-week column on New York City, from 1995 to 2011.
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Clyde Haberman served as a professor at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College teaching an honors seminar course on New York City.
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Clyde Haberman was first married to Nancy Spies Haberman, an executive with the public relations firm Rubenstein Associates.
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Since 1984, Clyde Haberman has been married to Kathleen Jones, former director of special projects at Human Rights First and former associate publisher of The New York Review of Books.