In 1979, based in Warsaw, Poland, he covered Eastern Europe for the "Times" and received both the Polk Award and the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of Poland under martial law and the rise of the Solidarity movement (he had to smuggle dispatches out of the country). He went on to become the bureau chief in Madrid and London and also served as the deputy foreign editor, the metropolitan editor, and the cultural news editor at the "Times". He retired from the "Times" in 2005.