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Jonathan Kaufman

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Jonathan Kaufman
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Journalist, Author, Professor at
Northeastern University
Personal details
BornApril 18, 1956
New York City, New York
Alma materYale College
Harvard University
Website[1]

Jonathan Kaufman (born April 18, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter[1] and author, and Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism[2] and professor of Journalism.[3]

Kaufman was born in New York City, New York. 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]

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Northeastern University

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The Wall Street Journal

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Author

Kaufman is the author of three books.

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]

Kaufman had a third book published 2020: Kings of Shanghai. Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China (Little Brown, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4087-1004-3).[18]

Education

Honors and awards

  • 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]
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Public Service, 2011, for a Bloomberg News series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[26]
  • Overseas Press Club Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Chinese students gaming the SATs to gain admittance to American colleges.[27]
  • Gerald Loeb Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[28]
  • George Polk Award, 2012, for a Bloomberg series on abuses in the student loan industry.[29]
  • George Polk Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.[30]

Source: "Jonathan Kaufman", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, September 11th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kaufman.

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