- Jon Entine
Jon Entine (born April 30, 1952) is a prominent journalist and sustainability consultant who writes on corporate responsibility and science and society. He is a columnist and for the British-based magazine "Ethical Corporation" magazine, an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and senior counselor on sustainability at Northlich, a brand reputation, advertising, and public relations corporation based in Cincinnati, where he lives.
Before transitioning to print journalism in 1994, Entine spent 20 years as a network television news producer with ABC, CBS, and NBC. He won numerous awards, including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced for the TV news magazines "20/20" and "PrimeTime Live" and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries (1989-1990).
In 1989, Entine and Brokaw collaborated to write and produce "Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction", named Best International Sports Film of 1989, which led to his 2000 book, "Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It", which was re-released in 2007. It was favorably reviewed by the "New York Times". [ [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/entine-taboo.html "Breaking the Taboo on Race and Sports"] ] and numerous other publications. There were some critical reviews, claiming that the subject was inappropriate for serious discussion. In 2007, Entine published "Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People," which examined the shared ancestry of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and addressed the question "Who is a Jew?" as seen through the prism of DNA. It was favorably reviewed by "Nature Genetics". In the book, he reviews the controversial issue of differences between verbal and performance IQ among Jews, states that IQ is mostly heritable and reviews studies that show that Ashkenazi Jews test out to have a higher IQ on average than gentiles.
AEI press has published two books written and edited by Entine: "Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing" (2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and "Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture" (January 2006), which examined the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. He has also contributed to numerous academic books on a variety of subjects, including sports, genetics, leadership, and sustainability.
In 1994, Entine wrote a now famous article on The Body Shop cosmetic company, "Shattered
Entine has served as a lecturer at various universities, including Columbia, Michigan, Arizona State, NYU, and Miami (Ohio), where he was scholar-in-residence (2002-2005). He graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1974 with a degree in philosophy and later earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan (1980-1981).
Books
*"Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It", 2001, ISBN 158648026X
*"Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing" 2005 ISBN 084474218X
*"Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution", 2006, ISBN 0844742007
*"Abraham's Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People" 2008, ISBN 0446580635Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.jonentine.com/]
* [http://www.abrahamschildren.net]
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