C. J. Chivers
C.J. Chivers contributes to both the Foreign and Investigative desks of The Times, writing from Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, Georgia, Chechnya and elsewhere on a wide range of assignments. He served as Moscow correspondent from June 2004 through mid 2008. He has also covered war zones in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Israel, Central Asia and Afghanistan, and studied the Russian language to prepare for his post. From 1999 until 2001 he was a Metro reporter covering crime and law enforcement in New York City, working in a three-reporter bureau inside the police headquarters in lower Manhattan. While in this bureau, he covered the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Chivers was a staff writer at The Providence Journal in Rhode Island from 1995 until 1999, covering crime and politics, and was a contributor to several magazines, writing on wildlife, natural history and conservation. He remains a contributor to Esquire Magazine and Field & Stream.
From 1988 until 1994, Mr. Chivers was an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving in the Persian Gulf War and performing peacekeeping duties as an infantry company commander during the Los Angeles riots. He was honorably discharged as a captain in 1994.
In 1996, Mr. Chivers received the Livingston Award for International Journalism for a series on the collapse of commercial fishing in the North Atlantic. Two of his stories in The Times from Afghanistan were cited in the award of The Pultizer Prize for Public Service in 2002. In 2007, his reconstruction for Esquire of the terrorist siege of a public school in Beslan, Russia won The Michael Kelly Award and National Magazine Award for Reporting. He was also part of the New York Times team that was awarded The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2009, for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mr. Chivers graduated with a B.A. cum laude in English from Cornell University in January 1988. He was the 1995 valedictorian of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also graduated from several military schools, including the U.S. Army's Ranger Course.
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