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Jonathan Kaufman

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Jonathan Kaufman
Journalist, Author, Professor at
Northeastern University
Personal details
Born (1956-04-18) April 18, 1956 (age 68)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materYale 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

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Prior to joining Northeastern, he 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 Beijing Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal[6] and a reporter and Berlin Bureau Chief at 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

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  • 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, ISBN 978-1-4087-1004-3).[18]

Honors and awards

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  • 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.[30]

References

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  1. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  2. ^ "Jonathan Kaufman".
  3. ^ "Bloomberg News editor to lead Northeastern's journalism school - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  4. ^ "Bloomberg names Kaufman executive editor for company news - Talking Biz News". 29 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Bloomberg's Jonathan Kaufman on prize-winning teams". 2011-07-20.
  6. ^ "A Fan in Beijing Makes Trek Home to Red Sox Nation, Finds Bliss in Front Row". Wall Street Journal. 29 October 2004.
  7. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  8. ^ "FACULTY PROFILE: Jonathan Kaufman". 20 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Trump Banning Reporters Echoes Nixon, China". HuffPost. 2016-06-16.
  10. ^ "Prison Life is All Around for a Girl Growing up in Downtown Baltimore". Wall Street Journal. 27 October 1998.
  11. ^ "Biography - JONATHAN KAUFMAN".
  12. ^ Kaufman, Jonathan (1995). Broken Alliance. ISBN 0684800969.
  13. ^ "NJBA Winners". Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  14. ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".
  15. ^ Kaufman, Jonathan (1997-01-01). A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe. ISBN 9780670867479.
  16. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe by Jonathan Kaufman, Author Viking Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-86747-9".
  17. ^ "A HOLE IN THE HEART OF THE WORLD | Kirkus Reviews".
  18. ^ London Review of Books, 18 February 2021.
  19. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  20. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  21. ^ "NJBA Winners". Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  22. ^ "National Headliner Awards | Writing • Reporting • TV & Radio • Photography • Graphics".
  23. ^ "Unity Awards in Media - Lincoln University".
  24. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  25. ^ "How Moving Away from the 'Old Model' of Journalism Led to 'Revelatory' Stories Out of India".
  26. ^ "| UCLA Anderson School of Management". 3 May 2021.
  27. ^ "Page Not Found | Long Island University". {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  28. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  29. ^ "Awards Recipients - OPC".
  30. ^ "Page Not Found | Long Island University". {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
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