Stuart Loory

Stuart Hugh Loory (born May 22 1932) is an American journalist and educator.

Early life and career

Loory was born in Wilson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Dover, New Jersey, where his parents, Harry & Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at Blair Academy. Loory graduated from Cornell University in 1954 where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and editor-in-chief of "The Cornell Daily Sun". After three years at the "Newark News", he received a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1958, and did postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria.

Staring in 1959, he worked at the "New York Herald Tribune" as a reporter, science writer (1961-63), a Washington correspondent (1963-64), and a Moscow-based foreign correspondent (1964-66). He worked briefly as a science writer for the "New York Times" in 1966, then as a White House correspondent for "Los Angeles Times" (1967-71), earning a place on President Nixon's "Enemies List." Loory was a fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center, 1971-72, and in 1973 executive editor for WNBC-TV news. He was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at The Ohio State University, 1973-75. He became associate and, later, managing editor of "Chicago Sun-Times" in 1975.

CNN

In 1980 he joined the staff of Turner Broadcasting Systems' Cable News Network (as managing editor of the Washington bureau, 1980-82; Moscow bureau chief, 1983-86; senior correspondent, 1986; executive producer, 1987-90; editor-in-chief of "CNN World Report", 1990-91; vice-president of CNN, 1990-95; executive vice-president, Turner International Broadcasting, Russia, 1993-97).

Academia

Since 1997, has been the first Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is currently editor of "Global Journalist," a quarterly magazine of interest to journalists in 127 countries and moderator of Global Journalist on KBIA-FM radio in Columbia, Missouri. The magazine and program can be read and heard at www.globaljournalist.org

Books

*"The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam" (1968, with David Kraslow)
*"Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine" (1973)
*"Seven Days That Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism" (1991, with Ann Isme)

Family

Loory married Marjorie Dretel of Morristown, New Jersey in 1955. They had three children: Joshua, Adam, and Miriam. Marjorie and Stuart divorced in the early 1990s. In the mid 90s Stuart met Nina Kudriavtsev, while hosting Ted Turner and Jane Fonda in the Czar's Box of the Bolshoi Theater. They were married in the late 90s and now live in Columbia, MO. Nina travels back to Moscow many times a year to visit her family there (from a previous marriage), and to be the artistic director of Benois De La Danse, the international ballet awards. Stuart has 2 grandchildren from his first son Joshua married to Fern Hoppenstand: Matthew and Ilana. From his daughter Miriam married to Daniel Krombach he has: Leah, Joseph "Joey", Benjamin, and Jonathan "Jonny boy". From his second marriage he has 2 grandchildren: Kostya (Constantine) and "Areseni" (Arsenia). Both of his Russian half grandchildren come from two marriages of his step son, Lyoka (Leonid).

References

* [http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/stuart-loory.html Stuart Loory page] via University of Missouri
* [http://reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=46 Stuart H. Loory biography] via Reporting Civil Rights