- published: 14 May 2016
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John Kifner was a reporter for the The New York Times. After serving as an editor on his Williams College student newspaper, The Williams Record, Kifner joined The New York Times as a copy boy in 1963 and sought reporting assignments. John Kifner became a metropolitan reporter with The New York Times in October 1988, after serving as bureau chief in Cairo from October 1985. He also continued to cover both national and foreign stories. In 2003, he covered the initial attacks of the war in Iraq with the Marines and in 2004 he covered the conflict from Falluja. Kifner also covered the first Gulf War in 1991 with the 101st Airborne Division. In the past, he has covered wars and conflict in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia.
Since joining The New York Times in 1963, Kifner has been both a national and a foreign correspondent based first in Chicago and then Boston. He became bureau chief in Beirut in October 1979, then transferred to Warsaw in May 1982, and again was reassigned to Beirut in May 1984.