Jonathan Kaufman

This article is about the professor. For the food writer, see Jonathan Kauffman.

Jonathan Kaufman
Journalist, Author, Professor at Northeastern University
Personal details
Born	(1956-04-18) April 18, 1956 (age 69) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale 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 in journalism

Prior to joining Northeastern, Kaufman 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 the Beijing Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal , ^[6] and a reporter and the Berlin Bureau Chief for 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

• 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

• 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

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.
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28. "The Pulitzer Prizes".
29. "Awards Recipients - OPC".
30. "Page Not Found | Long Island University".{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)

External links

• Official website
• Biography at Northeastern University