In 1993, Raines moved to New York City as the Times editorial page editor, a position he held for eight years. His memoir was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He fondly described the family's black housekeeper. In 1992, Raines published an essay, 'Grady's Gift', about his childhood in Alabama. The next year, he returned to Washington, D.C., to become the city's bureau chief. In 1987, Raines transferred to London and worked as the newspaper's London bureau chief. He progressed to management in 1985, becoming deputy Washington editor. By 1979, Raines was promoted to Atlanta's bureau chief, a position he held until 1981, when he became a national political correspondent.īy the next year, Raines had advanced to become a White House correspondent for The Times. Raines joined The New York Times in 1978, as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. In 1976 he left that post to become political editor at the St. He also reported for WBRC-TV in Birmingham.Īfter a year as a reporter at the Birmingham News, in 1971 Raines was selected as political editor of the Atlanta Constitution. In September 1964, Raines began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald in Alabama. He earned a bachelor's degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1964 and a master's degree in English from the University of Alabama in 1973. Raines has also published a novel, two memoirs, and an oral history of the civil rights movement. His positions included political correspondent and bureau chief in Atlanta and Washington, DC, before joining the New York City staff in 1993.

After beginning his journalism career working for Southern newspapers, he joined The Times in 1978, as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. In 2008, Raines became a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio, writing the magazine's media column.

He was executive editor of The New York Times from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the scandal related to reporting by Jayson Blair. Howell Hiram Raines ( / ˈ h aʊ əl r eɪ n s/ born February 5, 1943) is an American journalist, editor, and writer.

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