Joseph Berger Biography

Joseph Berger has been a reporter editor and columnist with The New York Times since 1984 most recently writing a biweekly national column for the Times' education page as well as columns for the regional editions. He was a religion correspondent from 1985 to 1987 covering the Pope's trip to 10 American cities in nine days and national education correspondent from 1987 to 1990 a period when American school curricula were under attack as too European-focused. In September 1999 he was appointed deputy education editor where among other stories he has directed coverage of the firing of one chancellor and the search for another the dramatic changes in bilingual education and a series on the first-year of a new teacher. Prior to joining the Times Berger worked as Newsday's religion writer where he three times won the Supple Award given by the Religion Newswriters Association its highest honor. Berger also worked at The New York Post covering such assignments as the 1973 Middle East War and Watergate. From 1967 to 1971 he was an English teacher at a Bronx junior high school.

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