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Clyde Haberman

Clyde Haberman has been a Metro columnist for the New York Times since September 1995, when he returned to New York after nearly 13 years as a foreign correspondent. For nearly 16 years, he wrote the NYC column, which came to an end in April 2011. He now writes a four-times-a-week column called 'The Day' on the Times's City Room blog.

During Haberman's years abroad, he was based in Tokyo, Rome, and Jerusalem.

He was the Times's Tokyo Bureau Chief from 1983 to 1988, 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 from 1988 to 1991, he spent much time in Eastern Europe, covering the collapse of Communism, and then in the Middle East, during the Persian Gulf War. Based in Jerusalem from 1991 to 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's 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's 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, a 1966 graduate of the City College of New York, is married and has three children and three grandchildren.