Jonathan Foreman Bio -- As of July 1, 2004

An editorial writer and senior film critic for the New York Post, Jonathan Foreman was sent by the paper to cover the recent war in Iraq. Embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Kuwait at the beginning of March, he arrived in Baghdad a day after the city's fall, and reported from there until the beginning of June. He had a global scoop with his report of the discover of $320 million in cash in a West Baghdad garden shed, and a second one with his report that some of this money was subsequently stolen by G.I.'s. His essay for the Weekly Standard on dishonesty and bias in the Baghdad press corps ("Bad Reporting in Baghdad") caused wide controversy in the U.S. media. On the strength of his Iraq coverage, the Post subsequently sent him to cover the Californial recall election of October 2003.

Foreman has been with the New York Post since April 1998. Originally hired to write leaders on crime and urban policy, he six months later became a full time film critic for the paper (also writing features that took advantage of his family background in Hollywood). After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the Post asked him to write leaders and columns on foreign policy and military affairs. This work takes up most of his time but he continues to write film reviews for the paper and is the current chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle. For four years before joining the Post, Foreman was a freelancer writing on a variety of subjects for publications ranging from The New Yorker to Los Angeles to New Woman. During this time he was a contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, the National Law Journal and Spy.

His 1998 City Journal article "Towards a More Civil City " was cited by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the inspiration for "quality of life" law enforcement efforts of his second term in office. Another City Journal piece, "Bombay on the Hudson" about South Asian immigration to the New York area, won the South Asian Journalists' Association first prize for reporting in 1997.

An Anglo-American dual national, Jonathan Foreman was born in London and educated on both sides of the Atlantic before going up to Cambridge to read Modern History. After graduation in 1987 he worked as an editorial assistant at the International Herald Tribune in Paris before attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He received his J.D. from Penn (where he specialized in American Constitutional Law) in 1991. That same year he became a member of the New York Bar and joined the Manhattan firm of Shearman and Sterling. Upon leaving the law two years later he travelled widely and and at length in South and SouthEast Asia before becoming a journalist.

As well as his work for the Post, Foreman is an occasional contributor to the London Daily Telegraph, the Weekly Standard and Mens's Journal, the American adventure travel magazine. He has good French, effective Spanish, serviceable German and a reading knowledge of Italian.