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==Reporting career== During the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America and wrote his first book, ''Bitter Fruit'', about military coups and destabilization in [[Guatemala]] during the 1950s. In 1990, ''[[The New York Times]]'' appointed Kinzer to head its [[Berlin]] bureau,<ref name=carnegie>{{cite web|url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/data/stephen_kinzer.html|title=Stephen Kinzer|publisher=[[Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs]]}}</ref> from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from the [[Eastern Bloc|Soviet bloc]]. Kinzer was ''The New York Times'' chief in the newly established [[Istanbul]] bureau from 1996 to 2000.<ref name=carnegie/> Upon returning to the U.S., Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at [[Northwestern University]].<ref name=carnegie/> He then took up residence in Boston and began teaching journalism and [[United States foreign policy|U.S. foreign policy]] at [[Boston University]]. He has written several nonfiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the U.S. overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as [[Rwanda]]'s recovery from genocide.{{cn|date=May 2024}} Kinzer also contributes columns to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/stephen-kinzer/|title=Stephen Kinzer|work=nybooks.com|access-date=December 13, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephenkinzer|title=Stephen Kinzer|work=theguardian.com|access-date=December 13, 2016}}</ref> and ''[[The Boston Globe]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/contributors/skinzer|title=Stephen Kinzer - The Boston Globe|work=bostonglobe.com|access-date=December 13, 2016|archive-date=September 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917155018/https://www.bostonglobe.com/contributors/skinzer|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the [[Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs]] at [[Brown University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://watson.brown.edu/people/visiting/kinzer|title=Stephen Kinzer - Watson Institute|work=brown.edu|access-date=December 13, 2016}}</ref>
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