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John Fisher Burns
British journalist
This article is about the journalist. For other people with the same name, see John Burns (disambiguation).
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Born | (1944-10-04) 4 October 1944 (age 80) Nottingham, England |
Spouses | Jane Peque Gnat (m. 1972; div. 1989)Jane Scott-Long (m. 1991) |
John Fisher Burns (born 4 October 1944) is a British journalist, and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
He was the London bureau chief for The New York Times, where he covered international issues until March 2015. Burns also frequently appears on PBS. He has been called "the dean of American foreign correspondents."[1]
Life and career
From 1998 to 1999, he was a visiting fellow at King's College, Cambridge, studying Islamic history and culture.[2] He also speaks French and German.
His father was a South African who served in the Royal Air