Howard French
Journalist, professor and photographer
Howard W. French is a Columbia University journalism teacher who spent over two decades as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is also a documentary photographer.
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Born in the United States
About Howard French
Howard W. French joined the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008, and he teaches both journalism and photography there. Before that he reported for The New York Times for nearly 23 years as a foreign correspondent, working in more than 100 countries. He led the paper's bureaus in Shanghai, Tokyo, Abidjan and Miami, and his reporting from Africa and China was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Between 1979 and 1986 he was based in West Africa, working as a translator, lecturing in English literature at the University of Ivory Coast, and reporting as a freelancer. His documentary photography has been shown in exhibitions on four continents. He speaks English, Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. His book in our catalog is China's Second Continent.