Froma Harrop

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Froma Harrop
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Born (1950-03-18) March 18, 1950 (age 74)
StatusWidowed
EducationNew York University
Occupation Columnist
Notable creditTop 100 Syndicated Columnists
Children2
Website http://www.fromaharrop.com

Froma Harrop (born March 18, 1950, in New York City) is an American writer and author. Though liberal / left-of-center, she is known for her unconventional approach and libertarian streak.[ citation needed ]

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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]

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References

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  2. Loew, Karen (November 24, 2010). "Missing Half of the Potentially Best Ideas". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
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