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Jonathan Kaufman | |
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| Journalist, Author, Professor at Northeastern University | |
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| Born | April 18, 1956 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale College Harvard University |
Jonathan Kaufman (born April 18, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter,[1] author, editor, Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism,[2] and professor of journalism.[3]
Career in journalism
[edit | edit source]Prior to joining Northeastern, Kaufman was an Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing more than 300 reporters and editors.[4] Under his leadership, Kaufman's team at Bloomberg won numerous awards, including a 2015 Pulitzer Prize, several George Polk Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, the Osborn Elliott Prize of the Asia Society, and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize.[5]
Prior to Bloomberg, Kaufman was a senior editor and the Beijing Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal,[6] and a reporter and the Berlin Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series examining racism and job discrimination in Boston.[7]
Kaufman's specialties are the role of Jews in American politics and around the world;[8] the challenges facing media in the 21st century and in the age of President Donald Trump;[9] race relations and class in the United States;[10] and Chinese politics, economy and relations with the United States.[11]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America[12] won the National Jewish Book Award.[13] It was hailed by African-American and white reviewers as gripping, insightful and fair and is still used widely in college classrooms.[14]
- A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe[15] was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Reviews called it “deeply engrossing,”[16] and “beautifully written.”[17]
- The Last Kings of Shanghai. Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China (Little Brown, 2020, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).).[18]
Honors and awards
[edit | edit source]- Pulitzer Prize for Special Local Reporting, 1984, for a series in The Boston Globe on racism and job discrimination in Boston.[19]
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting, 1985, for a series in The Boston Globe on neighborhood activists in Boston.[20]
- National Jewish Book Award for Broken Alliance, 1989.[21]
- National Headliner Award, 1997, for a series in The Wall Street Journal on the changing nature of work and worker's lives.[22]
- Unity in Media Award, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.[23]
- American Jewish Committee Present Tense Award for Best Book on Current Affairs for Broken Alliance, 1989.
- Finalist, National Jewish Book Award for A Hole in the Heart of the World, 1997.
- Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 2008, for a portfolio of stories on how race and gender have impacted the presidential primary races.
- Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.
- Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, 2015, for a Bloomberg News series on corporate tax dodging.[24]
- Asia Society/Osborn Elliott Award for Coverage of Asia, 2015, for a Bloomberg series on companies in India killing villagers and others through pollution and environmental abuse.[25]
- Gerald Loeb Award,[26] George Polk Award,[27] and Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Public Service,[28] 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.
- Overseas Press Club Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Chinese students gaming the SATs to gain admittance to American colleges.[29]
- George Polk Award, 2012, for a Bloomberg series on abuses in the student loan industry.[27]
References
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External links
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