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{{Short description|American journalist}}
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| caption = Chira at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
| name = Susan Deborah Chira
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|05|18}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
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| occupation = journalist and author
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| status = married
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| spouse = Michael Shapiro
| children = 2
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| credits = ''[[The New York Times]]''; ''A Mother's Place'' (book)
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| awards = {{Awards|award=[[Gerald Loeb Award]]|year=2018}}
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'''Susan Deborah Chira''' (born May 18, 1958, in [[Manhattan]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Susan_Chira.html|title=Ask a Reporter Q&A: Susan Chira |date=2002|work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015031724/http://nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Susan_Chira.html |archive-date=October 15, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an American journalist. She was the editor-in-chief of [[The Marshall Project]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/03/25/susan-chira-named-editor-in-chief-of-the-marshall-project|title = Susan Chira Named Editor-in-Chief of the Marshall Project|date = 25 March 2019}}</ref> until January 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/16/susan-chira-eic-step-down|title = Susan Chira to Step Down as The Marshall Project's Editor-in-Chief in January|date = 16 May 2024|website=The Marshall Project|access-date=January 29, 2025|archive-date=January 29, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250129214820/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/16/susan-chira-eic-step-down}}</ref> Previously, Chira was a senior correspondent and editor covering gender for ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/business/media/new-york-times-reinstates-managing-editor-role-appoints-joseph-kahn.html?mcubz=0|title = New York Times Reinstates Managing Editor Role and Appoints Joseph Kahn|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 16 September 2016|last1 = Ember|first1 = Sydney}}</ref> From September 2014 until September 2016, she was a deputy executive editor of the newspaper and oversaw its news report.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/business/new-york-times-promotes-editors-in-change-of-leadership-structure.html?mcubz=0|title = New York Times Expands Newsroom Leadership to Address Shifts in Industry|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 24 September 2014|last1 = Somaiya|first1 = Ravi}}</ref> She was previously the assistant managing editor for news,<ref name="chira_ame_nyt">[http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/times-makes-masthead-promotions/ ''Times Makes Masthead Promotions'']</ref> and was the ''Times''<nowiki/>'s foreign news editor from 2004 to 2011.

She was raised in [[Rye, New York]], and attended [[Phillips Academy Andover]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], where she graduated in 1976. She received her [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1980, graduating [[summa cum laude]]. She is a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]].

While at Harvard, Chira was the president of the ''[[The Harvard Crimson|Harvard Crimson]]''.

Chira joined ''The New York Times'' in 1981. She was the ''Times''<nowiki/>'s correspondent and then bureau chief in [[Tokyo]] from 1984 to 1989.

She has also been the metropolitan reporter at bureaus in [[Albany, New York]], and [[Stamford, Connecticut]], national education correspondent, deputy editor of the Foreign desk, editor of ''The Week in Review'',<ref name="askareporter_chira">[https://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/Susan_Chira.html ''The New York Times Ask a Reporter Q&A - Susan Chira'']</ref> and editorial director of book development. In May 2018, following a stint as an editor covering gender issues, she was named interim Metro editor following the resignation of Wendell Jamieson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/business/times-metro-editor-accused.html|title=Women Said to Accuse Times Editor Who Resigned of Inappropriate Behavior|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 May 2018|last1=Hsu|first1=Tiffany}}</ref> She served in that post until the appointment of [[Clifford J. Levy]] to the position two months later.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/business/media/new-york-times-names-cliff-levy-metro-editor.html|title=New York Times Names Cliff Levy as Its New Metro Editor|newspaper=The New York Times|date=31 July 2018|last1=Grynbaum|first1=Michael M.}}</ref>

She was part of The New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018 for reporting on sexual harassment; her article, with Catrin Einhorn, focused on decades of sexual harassment at two Ford factories in Chicago. She also shared the 2018 [[Gerald Loeb Award]] for Investigative Journalism for her reporting on the [[sexual predator]] allegations against film producer [[Harvey Weinstein]] that led to the [[Me Too movement]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-times-reporting-led-jodi-kantor-and-megan-twohey-and-new-yorker-reporting-ronan |title=The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow |website=[[The Pulitzer Prizes]] |access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref><ref name="LOEB-2018">{{Cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2018-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300672056.html |title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners |date=June 25, 2018 |website=PR Newswire |access-date=January 31, 2019}}</ref>

==Family==
Chira is married to Michael Shapiro,<ref>" [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/03/style/michael-shapiro-wed-to-susan-chira-in-rye.html Michael Shapiro Wed To Susan Chira in Rye]." ''The New York Times'', 3 September 1984.</ref> a professor at [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]]. They have two daughters, Eliza Shapiro, a reporter at the ''Times'', and Joni Shapiro, a writer and librarian.

==Bibliography==
* ''A Mother's Place: Taking the Debate About Working Mothers Beyond Guilt and Blame.'' New York: Harper, 1998. {{ISBN|0-06-017327-0}} {{ISBN|978-0060173272}}
* ''Cautious Revolutionaries: Occupation Planners and Japan's Post-War Land Reform.'' Agricultural Policy Research Center, 1982. ASIN: B0006EBHJS

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