Susan Chira

Susan Deborah Chira
Born	New York City
Occupation	journalist and author
Spouse(s)	Michael Shapiro
Children	two
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times; A Mother's Place (book)

Susan Deborah Chira (born in New York City) is an American journalist. She was named assistant managing editor for news of The New York Times in September of 2011^[1]. She had been the Times 's foreign news editor from 2004 to 2011.

She was raised in Rye, NY and attended Phillips Andover Academy, in Andover, MA, where she graduated in 1976. She received her B.A. at Harvard University in 1980, graduating summa cum laude. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

While at Harvard, she was the president 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^[2]
editorial director of book development

Family

Chira is married to Michael Shapiro,^[3] 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

^ Times Makes Masthead Promotions
^ 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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