Froma Harrop

Froma Harrop
Born	(1950-03-18) March 18, 1950 (age 75) New York City
Status	Widowed
Education	New York University
Occupation	Columnist
Notable credit	Top 100 Syndicated Columnists
Children	2
Website	http://www.fromaharrop.com

Froma Harrop (born March 18, 1950, in New York City) is an American writer and author.

She is best known for her bi-weekly syndicated column which appears in about 200 news outlets including the Seattle Times , Newsday , Denver Post , Arizona Republic , Detroit News , Omaha World-Herald , San Antonio Express-News , Real Clear Politics and The Providence Journal . She is represented by Creators Syndicate Inc. in Los Angeles.

Media Matters ranks her column 20th nationally in total readership and 14th in large newspaper concentration.^{[ citation needed ]}

Early life

Born in New York City, Harrop was raised in suburban Long Island and attended New York University. She graduated in 1972. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Harrop worked at the financial desk at Reuters, covering business and the Federal Reserve, ^[3] and later became a business editor for The New York Times News Service. ^[4] She returned to her reporting roots as a business writer for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and subsequently joined the Journal’s editorial board, where she was a member until 2013. ^[5] Harrop currently resides in Providence and New York City.

Harrop has been a guest on PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . Harrop has written for The New York Times , Harper’s Bazaar , and Institutional Investor . She is also a contributor to The Progressive Populist . Her columns have been published in several book anthologies.

Harrop is a past president of the Association of Opinion Journalists, formerly known as the National Conference of Editorial Writers. ^{[6] [7]}

Awards

• Bastiat Prize for Journalism finalist in 2015. ^[8]
• Loeb Awards finalist for economic commentary in 2011. ^[9]
• Scripps Howard Award finalist for commentary in 2010.
• Loeb Awards finalist for economic commentary in 2004. ^[10]
• An Editor & Publisher Feature of the Year in 2003.
• A National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in 2001.
• Five awards from the New England Associated Press Newspaper Executives Association.

References

1. Peck, Greg (10 February 2010). "Meet columnist Froma Harrop". GazetteXtra. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
2. Loew, Karen (November 24, 2010). "Missing Half of the Potentially Best Ideas". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
3. Detroit News Online. Froma Harrop Bio at DetNews
4. "New York Times Syndicate". nytsyn.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
5. "Providence Journal - Rhode Island news, sports, weather & more". projo.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
6. "NCEW Board and Committees". The National Conference of Editorial Writers. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
7. Past Presidents Archived 2020-08-11 at the Wayback Machine , National Conference of Editorial Writers
8. "Finalists for the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism". 2 October 2015.
9. "Loeb Award Finalists - UCLA Anderson School of Management". ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
10. UCLA Anderson School of Management. Gerald Loeb Awards Archived 2006-08-30 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Official site
• Froma Harrop Features at Creators Syndicate