- Received his MS degree from Columbia University in 1960.
- Was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines.
- Earned a BA degree in English from Harvard University in 1958.
- Authored Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, based on his reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s and 1980s. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1986 for Move Your Shadow.
- Earned an MA in American history from Harvard University in 1959.
- Started working at the New York Times in 1962 and and there for over 40 years.
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