 Finer also spent a year in Hong Kong as a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, working as a reporter and editor at the "Far Eastern Economic Review".Finer was a foreign and national correspondent at the "Washington Post", where he reported from more than 20 countries and spent 18 months covering the war in Iraq, embedding with the U.S. Marines during the 2003 invasion and based in Baghdad in 2005-2006.He also covered conflicts in Gaza (2009), Russia/Georgia (2008) and Israel/Lebanon (2006); the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign; and the 2004 Major League Baseball playoffs.