Victor Navasky

Victor S. Navasky (b. July 5, 1932) is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was editor of "The Nation" from 1978 until 1995, and its publisher and editorial director 1995 to 2005. In November 2005 he became the publisher emeritus.

Before coming to "The Nation" he was an editor at "The New York Times Magazine" and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the "Times" Book Review.

Life

Navasky was born in New York City. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1954), where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in the social sciences, and Yale Law School (1959). While at Yale, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine "Monocle".

In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence from "The Nation", he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. Navasky has also served as a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities and has contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion.

In addition to his "Nation" responsibilities, Navasky is also Director of the George T. Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia University and a regular commentator on the public radio program Marketplace. He has recently become chairman of the "Columbia Journalism Review".

In 2005, Navasky received the George Polk Book Award [cite web |url=http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2005.html|title=George Polk Awards for Journalism press release|accessmonthday=November 15 |accessyear=2006 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Long Island University |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=] given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.

Mr. Navasky, who has three children, lives in New York City with his wife, Anne. He serves on the boards of the Authors Guild, International PEN and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Books by Victor Navasky

* "Kennedy Justice" (Atheneum, 1977)
* "Naming Names" (Viking, 1980); a book concerning the Hollywood blacklist
* "The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation" (with Christopher Cerf), 1984, 1998, (ISBN 0-679-77806-3)
* "A Matter of Opinion" (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2005) (ISBN 0-374-29997-8)
* "Mission Accomplished!" (or "How We Won the War in Iraq"), (with Christopher Cerf), 2008, (ISBN 1-4165-6993-6)

Magazines with which Navasky has been associated

* "Monocle" (founding editor)
* "The Nation" (editor, later publisher)
* "Columbia Journalism Review" (chairman)

References

External links

* [http://wiredforbooks.org/victornavasky/ 1984 audio interview of Victor Navasky, RealAudio at Wired for Books.org with Don Swaim]
* [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=83 The Bat Segundo Show #64] (2006 podcast interview with Navasky)
* [http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/profile3.html 2008 Interview with Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf about their book, Mission Accomplished! (or How We Won the War in Iraq), on "Bill Moyers' Journal"]