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Lee Kravitz is the author of Unfinished Business and was editor-in-chief of Parade magazine from 2000 until he was fired in 2008.
From 1987 to 1995, Kravitz was an editorial director of Scholastic Inc., an educational publishing company. [1] He oversaw several classroom magazines, including Choices , Science World , Search , Update , [2] and Junior Scholastic. [3] He also served as director of new media and special projects for the company's 37 magazines. [4] Among the products and programs he developed were the Scholastic/NBC News Videos with Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, "Write Lyrics!" with Elektra Records, "SuperScience with Molly and Bert", an animated distance-learning series on Georgia Public Television, Scholastic NewsFax and the National Student Town Meeting Series on C-SPAN. [4]
Kravitz came to Parade in 1995 to launch React. [5] He also managed react.com, a website aimed at teenagers. [6] React reached a weekly circulation of 3 million through 245 newspapers before its close in June 2000. [6] [7]
On March 1, 2000, Kravitz became editor-in-chief and senior vice president of Parade. [6] At Parade, Kravitz worked on franchises such as "What People Earn", "What America Eats" and the Parade High School All-American teams. [5] He also developed the popular PARADE Snapshot and Parade Picks columns. [5] Kravitz commissioned articles by writers and journalists such as Mitch Albom, [8] Michael Crichton, [9] Bruce Feiler, [10] David Halberstam, [11] Norman Mailer, [12] Jack Newfield, [13] Gail Sheehy, [14] Jim Webb [15] and Elie Wiesel. [16] Among the national and world leaders he edited were Aung Sun Suu Kyi, [17] Colin Powell, [18] Bill Clinton [19] and George W. Bush. [20] Cover stories during his tenure included Parade's annual ranking of the ten worst dictators [21] and David Wallechinsky's "Visit to the Bridge to Nowhere". [22] The response to this article led Congress to rescind a $235 million earmark to build two bridges in a remote part of Alaska. [23] Kravitz's term as editor-in-chief and senior vice president ended when he was fired in 2008. [24] [25]
During this time, Kravitz also initiated cause-related campaigns with such organizations as the American Heart Association, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, HGTV, the Food Network, Research!America, [26] The White House Project, [27] Share Our Strength, [28] ABC Entertainment, and The Nature Conservancy. [4]
An honors graduate of Yale University [29] and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, [30] Kravitz grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, [31] where he attended University School. [32] He began his career as a freelance writer and photojournalist, traveling to more than 40 countries. [33] He and the magazines under his direction have received more than 200 journalism awards. [33] In 1992, he won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for "'Scholastic SEARCH: The Bill of Rights,' an innovative publication using rich stories to illustrate how the Bill of Rights affects students' daily lives." [34] He was also awarded the President's Award from the Association of Educational Publishers for his contributions to that industry. [33]
Kravitz lives in Manhattan [35] and Clinton Corners, New York, [36] with his wife, the literary agent Elizabeth Kaplan, [37] and their three children: Benjamin, Caroline, and Noah. [38] He is the author of Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things, published by Bloomsbury USA. [39]
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