Victor Saul Navasky

Victor Saul Navasky ( born July 5, 1932 in New York City ) is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was from 1978 to 1995 editor of the weekly newspaper The Nation from 1995 to 2005, her editor and director. Previously, he was editor of the New York Times Magazine for his monthly column about books new releases.

Life

Navasky is a graduate of Swarthmore College ( 1954) and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa connection with high honors in the social sciences, and Yale Law School ( Law ), during which time he became the co-founder and editor of the satirical magazine Monocle.

1994 - during a one-year sabbatical from The Nation - he was first a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and shortly afterwards " Senior Fellow " at the Centre for Peace Media Research Columbia University on. When he returned to the weekly newspaper The Nation, he bought it together with other investors to her publisher.

Navasky was also a "Fellow" of the Guggenheim Fellowship, a guest lecturer at the " Russell Sage Foundation " ( founded in 1907 an association for the promotion of social and living conditions ) and Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He has taught at many colleges and universities and published in numerous magazines and journals, articles and reviews.

Navasky in 2005 was awarded the George Polk Award. This award is given annually by the Long Iceland University of journalists to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.

Navasky lives with his wife and three children in New York City. He is a member of the boards of the Authors' Guild " Authors Guild " and the International PEN Club and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists.

Publications

  • Justice Kennedy. Atheneum, 1971, ISBN 1-58348-543-0.
  • Naming Names. Viking, 1980, ISBN 0-8090-0183-7. ( a book about the blacklisting of Hollywood )
  • Christopher Cerf: The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation. ( The experts speak: The definitive compendium authoritarian disinformation ), 1984, 1998, ISBN 0-679-77806-3.
  • A Matter of Opinion. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-29997-8.
  • Christopher Cerf: Mission Accomplished! How We Won the War in Iraq. ( Mission accomplished. How we won the war in Iraq ), 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-6993-0.

Magazines

  • Monocle (magazine ) | Monocle (founding member and editor )
  • The Nation (editor and later editor )
  • Columbia Journalism Review ( director )
Phi Beta Kappa Society Long Island University PEN International Committee to Protect Journalists Integrated Authority File
595584
de