John F. Burns

John F. Burns (born October 4, 1944 in Nottingham , England ) is an American journalist who received the Pulitzer Prize twice . He reports on international issues for The New York Times and appears regularly on the Public Broadcasting Service .

He was born in Nottingham and his family soon emigrated to Canada , where he studied at McGill University . During the early 1970s Burns wrote for the Canadian Toronto newspaper Globe and Mail , where he first covered local issues and later went to China as a correspondent . Burns went to The New York Times in 1975 , for which he has been writing ever since. He was posted to several of the Times' foreign offices, which he also chaired. Together with his Times colleagues John Darnton and Michael T. Kaufman , he received the George Polk Award for International Reporting in 1978 for their reports from Africa . From 1981 to 1984 Burns was the Times office manager in Moscow .

In 1986, while he was the head of the Times Bureau in Beijing , Burns was arrested by the Chinese government on suspicion of espionage . The charges were dropped after the investigation, but Burns was subsequently expelled from the country. Burns received the Pulitzer Prize for International Coverage in 1993 for "his courageous and comprehensive coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and the barbaric killings during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina " . Burns' reports from this war were criticized in 2007 for using sources that later withdrew their information.

Burns received his second Pulitzer Prize in 1997, this time "for his courageous and insightful coverage of the horrific regime by the Taliban over Afghanistan was imposed." Burns was in Baghdad during the phase in 2003 for the Iraq war led and has extensively about the war and the subsequent occupation of Iraq 2003-2011 reported. In July 2007, Burns followed Alan Cowell as the Times office manager in London .

Web links

• New York Times - Times Topics: John F Burns Article by John F. Burns at the New York Times (English)
• John F. Burns in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Transcript: John Burns interviewed by Hugh Hewitt , February 9, 2007
• Video: John Burns Interviewed by Charlie Rose , January 24, 2007
• Video: John Burns Interviewed by Bill Maher , March 10, 2006 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward S. Herman, David Peterson: Marlise Simons and the New York Times on the International Court of Justice Decision on Serbia and Genocide in Bosnia: A Further Study in Total Propaganda Service ( English ) ZNEZ. March 12, 2007. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008. Retrieved on May 22, 2019.