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Worldy Conversations with Clyde Haberman
Featuring Warren M. Hoge

On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, New York University's Center for Global Affairs hosted Warren M. Hoge, U.N. bureau chief for the New York Times, as part of its popular and candid series “Worldly Conversations with Clyde Haberman”. Haberman, NYC columnist for the New York Times and veteran correspondent, cuts to the heart of world affairs through engaging dialogues with renowned journalists and media luminaries. Avoiding sounds-bites and the clichés of studio-bound pundits, this more leisurely approach consistently yields thoughtful conversation and insightful observations from many corners of the world.

Warren Hoge came to The Times in 1976 as a metropolitan reporter and a year later became the deputy metropolitan editor. He covered South and Central America as the paper's Rio de Janeiro bureau chief from 1978 until 1983 when he returned to New York as the foreign editor. In 1987, he became the assistant managing editor for administration and personnel and in 1991 the editor of The New York Times magazine. From 1993 until 1996 he was assistant managing editor for culture, the Sunday book review, style, sports and travel, and he was in charge of recruiting writers for the entire newspaper. Most recently he had been The Times’s London bureau chief since 1996.

Clyde Haberman has been writing the NYC column for the New York Times since September 1995. Previously he was a foreign correspondent for thirteen years and was based in Tokyo, Rome and Jerusalem. He was the Times Tokyo Bureau Chief, mostly covering Japan and South Korea, but also traveling extensively to other parts of Asia, writing on everything from the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to pro-democracy uprisings in South Korea. While based in Rome, he spent much time covering the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and also covered the Persian Gulf War. In Jerusalem (1991-1995), he covered Israel's breakthrough agreement with the P.L.O. and the rise of militant Islamic terrorism, among other major events. Before joining the Times foreign staff in 1982, Haberman was a Metro reporter, and for several years headed the newspaper's City Hall Bureau. Earlier, he had been an editor in the Times “Week in Review” section. He has been with the paper since January 1977. Before that, he worked for the New York Post, covering a wide variety of local and national stories, including the bloody Attica prison rebellion in 1971 and Jimmy Carter's successful 1976 campaign. Haberman is a graduate of the City College of New York.

The evening embodied the Center for Global Affairs' commitment to create a community of global citizens dedicated to changing the world.