the Iraq war in 2003 and has written extensively on the war and the subsequent occupation. In July 2007, Burns succeeded Alan Cowell as bureau chief in London. On 30 September 2007, Burns received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. In an October 2008 interview with the Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Burns accused Kabulov of being a KGB operative. Burns is a frequent contributor to PBS, including a number of appearances on the Charlie Rose show and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer via satellite from Afghanistan and Iraq. In a January 2009 interview, Michael Barone called Burns "one of the great foreign correspondents of our time". In an August 2010 interview with Charlie Rose, Christopher Hitchens, while recounting a tour of Sarajevo guided by Burns in which they were fired upon, called Burns "the greatest war correspondent of our time". On 26 March 2015, The New York Times announced that an article about the burial of Richard III would conclude Burns' career at the New York Times. Personal life Burns married Jane Peque Gnat in 1972. The couple divorced in 1989. In 1991, Burns married Jane Scott-Long, who manages the New York Times Baghdad bureau. Burns has two children from his first marriage, Jamie and Emily, and one stepchild, Toby, from his second marriage. References External links Interviews Video: John Burns Interviewed by Bill Maher, 10 March 2006 Transcript: John Burns interviewed by Hugh Hewitt, 9 February 2007 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Burns, 11 February 2007 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Burns, 5 December 2010 Video: John Burns presentation and Q&A with Ralph Begleiter at the University of Delaware, 8 April 2009 1944 births Living people McGill University alumni Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners George Polk Award recipients British war correspondents The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners English male journalists Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients Harvard University alumni English male non-fiction writers Alumni of the University of Cambridge