Philip Terzian

Philip Terzian (born 1950), American journalist, has been the Literary editor of The Weekly Standard in Washington, D.C. since February 2005.

A native of Kensington, Maryland, Terzian graduated from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973 and has done graduate work at Oxford University and the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia.

He worked as a reporter and editor at The Anniston Star in Alabama, Reuters and U.S. News & World Report. During 1974-78 he was assistant editor of The New Republic. He was associate editor of the Lexington Herald in Kentucky, assistant editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, and during 1986-92, was editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal. From 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For two decades before joining The Weekly Standard, Terzian wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service, and reported from a dozen foreign countries. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. A former member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

Married to Grace Paine Terzian, and the father of two, he lives in Oakton, Virginia.

References

* [http://www.weeklystandard.com/AboutUs/bio_terzian.asp The Weekly Standard bio]