Victor Navasky

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

Life

Navasky is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1954) and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Association , Honored in Social Sciences, and Yale Law School , during which time he co-founded and edited the satirical magazine Monocle .

In 1994 - during a one-year sabbatical from The Nation - he became a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics , and shortly afterwards a "Senior Fellow" at the Center for Peace Media Research at Columbia University . When he returned to the weekly newspaper The Nation , he and other investors bought it from its publisher.

Navasky was also a fellow of the Guggenheim Fellowship , visiting professor at the Russell Sage Foundation (an association founded in 1907 to promote social and living conditions) and visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University . He has taught at many colleges and universities and has published articles and reviews in numerous magazines and journals.

In 2005 Navasky received a George Polk Award . This award is presented annually by Long Island University to journalists for journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. In 2006 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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

Publications

Kennedy Justice. Atheneum, 1971, ISBN 1-58348-543-0 .
Naming Names. Viking, 1980, ISBN 0-8090-0183-7 . (a book on Hollywood blacklists)
with Christopher Cerf : The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation. (The experts speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Disinformation), 1984, 1998, ISBN 0-679-77806-3 .
A matter of opinion. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-29997-8 .
with Christopher Cerf: Mission Accomplished! How We Won the War in Iraq. (Mission Completed. 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, later publisher)
Columbia Journalism Review (Director)

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personal data
SURNAME	Navasky, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Navasky, Victor Saul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City