Timothy Noah

Timothy Noah is an American journalist. He is a senior writer for "Slate Magazine", where he writes the "Chatterbox" column, and a contributing editor to "The Washington Monthly". Noah was previously an assistant managing editor at "U.S. News and World Report", a Washington reporter for the "Wall Street Journal", [cite web|url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/inside/noah.html|title=Timothy Noah bio|publisher=The Washington Monthly|accessdate=2007-02-27] [cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/117517/|title=Staff: Who We Are|publisher=Slate|accessdate=2007-02-27] a staff writer at "The New Republic" and a congressional correspondent for "Newsweek". He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was an editor of the "Harvard Advocate". He lives in Washington, D.C..

Noah's late wife, fellow journalist Marjorie Williams, died of cancer in 2005. After her death, Noah edited an anthology of Williams' writing, "The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate". [Meghan O'Rourke, [http://www.slate.com/id/2129883/ Marjorie Williams: A journalist who made feminism matter] , "Slate", November 9, 2005.] The book won PEN's Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and a National Magazine Award in the category of essays and criticism. A second Williams anthology, "Reputation: Portraits in Power" will be published in October 2008.

Noah appears frequently on television and radio as a commentator on politics and the media. Selected appearances include:
* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/23/rs.00.html CNN's "Reliable Sources"] , December 23, 2000
* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june02/history_1-28.html "PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer"] , January 28, 2002
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1829841 NPR's "Day to Day"] , April 4, 2004
* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/04/i_c.01.html CNN's "International Correspondents"] , June 4, 2005
* [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2005/12/06 New York Public Radio's "The Brian Lehrer Show"] , December 6, 2005

Iraq War

In a February 2003 article in "Slate", [Timothy Noah, [http://www.slate.com/id/2078396/ Chatterbox Goes to War] , "Slate", February 10, 2003] Noah described his initial opposition to the Iraq War and his conversion to the pro-war position by Colin Powell's February 3 speech to the United Nations. After many of Powell's statements were proven false, Noah changed his mind again about the war, praising those who had remained steadfastly against it in an August 2004 column. [Timothy Noah, [http://www.slate.com/id/2105434/ Can You Forgive Them?] , "Slate", August 20, 2004] . Since then, he has been an outspoken critic of the media's ongoing tendency to grant credibility to war boosters, while discounting the views of those who opposed the war from the start. [ [http://www.slate.com/id/2187008/ Timothy Noah, How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? Wrong Question.] ]

References

External links

* [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/13719 Video interview/conversation] with Rosa Brooks on Bloggingheads.tv

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