H. D. S. Greenway

Hugh David Scott Greenway (born May 5, 1935) is an American journalist who has worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for Time Life, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. Greenway has covered conflicts in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Burma, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bosnia, and Croatia. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, the Columbia Journalism Review, and la Repubblica. Greenway is currently a columnist for Foreign Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Early life and education Greenway was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1935 to James Greenway and Helen Livingston Scott, the second of three children. His father, a member of the Lauder Greenway family, was a well known ornithologist and explorer who was a curator at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Greenway attended Milton Academy, Yale University and Oxford University. After serving in the U.S. Navy reserve for two years from 1960 to 1962 he began his career in journalism. Later in his career, Greeenway would be the recipient of both a Nieman Fellowship and a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Career Greenway started his career at Time in 1962. Greenway was interviewing W. Averell Harriman at the State Department on November 22, 1963, when reports were received that President President Kennedy had been shot. As the presidential pool were all in Dallas, Greenway was sent to the White House to cover the event there, reporting that "No one around Kennedy thought to call the president's staff. For a moment the White House had become a backwater. Staffers were arguing over whether the White House flag should be lowered."