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Jon Meacham
August 4, 2008
Jon Meacham is editor of Newsweek
magazine. He is responsible for all day-to-day editorial operations
of Newsweek and Newsweek.com and has written cover stories on
politics, religion, guns in America, race, and the death of Ronald
Reagan. Meacham joined the magazine in 1995 and became National
Affairs Editor in June of that year. In 1998, at the age of 29,
he became managing editor, supervising the magazine's coverage
of politics, international affairs and breaking news. He has
been named "one of the most influential editors in the news
magazine business" by The New York Times.
In 2001, Newsweek won the National Magazine Award for General
Excellence - the industry's highest honor - for its coverage
of the attacks of September 11 and their aftermath. In 2003,
the magazine won the award again for its coverage of President
Bush and the Iraq War.
His latest book, American Gospel:
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, is a New
York Times bestseller. "In these polarized times,"
wrote USA Today, "Meacham's book provides an enlightening
look at how the founding fathers discovered ways to tame but
not extinguish the fires of faith." His earlier book, Franklin
and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, brought
him national acclaim. TIME magazine declared it "masterful."
Meacham is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and a "Global Leader for Tomorrow"
of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A contributing
editor for The Washington Monthly, he has also written for The
New York Times Book Review and The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
A favorite commentator on political affairs, he has appeared
on such programs as "The Charlie Rose Show," "The
Today Show," "The O'Reilly Factor" and "The
Colbert Report." |
