He wrote "NYC", a twice-a-week column on New York City, from 1995 to 2011. In 2009, he was part of a Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, awarded for coverage of the prostitution scandal that led to Eliot Spitzer's resignation as New York governor. In his April 8, 2011, column, entitled "One Last Attempt to Explain New York City", he announced that it would be his last "NYC" column.[6] In May 2011, he began writing a column called "The Day" for The New York Times online "City Room" blog.[7] That column ended in January 2013, and he began a new series of interviews for the Times. In 2014 he began writing an online series for the Times called Retro Report, linked with video documentaries exploring the long-term consequences of major news stories from the past. In 2017, he joined the Times editorial board.
He is the editor and writer of "The Times of the Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade," published in 2013 by Black Dog & Leventhal. In 2015, he was inducted into the New York Press Club's Hall of Fame.
Haberman served as a professor at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College teaching an honors seminar course on New York City.
Personal life
Clyde Haberman was first married to Nancy Spies Haberman, an executive with the public relations firm Rubenstein Associates. Their two children are Maggie Haberman,[8] White House correspondent for The New York Times, and Zach Haberman,[9] account director at BerlinRosen. Since 1984, Haberman has been married to Kathleen Jones, former director of special projects at Human Rights First and former associate publisher of The New York Review of Books. Their daughter is Emma Haberman,[10] former special events manager at World Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C.