[5] Over the years, he covered such major events as the Attica prison rebellion in 1971, the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986, South Korea's pro-democracy uprising in 1987, the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestine, the rise of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, and the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
In 2009, he was part of a Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, awarded for coverage of the prostitution scandal that led to Eliot Spitzer's resignation as New York governor.
In 2014 he began writing an online series for the Times called Retro Report, linked with video documentaries exploring the long-term consequences of major news stories from the past.
He is the editor and writer of "The Times of the Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade," published in 2013 by Black Dog & Leventhal.
Since 1984, Haberman has been married to Kathleen Jones, former director of special projects at Human Rights First and former associate publisher of The New York Review of Books.