Cose: Journalist, author to speak
March 30, 2001
Cose: Journalist, author to speak |
Former chairman of the editorial board and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News, Cose is currently an essayist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine.
At 19, Cose began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, the youngest editorial page columnist ever employed by a major Chicago daily. Cose also worked as an editor and national correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times, and as a contributor and press critic for Time magazine.
He has served as president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Journalism Education, chief writer on management and workplace issues for USA Today and on the Detroit Free Press editorial board. He has been a fellow at Columbia University's Gannett Center for Media Studies and the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, and a senior fellow and director of energy-policy studies at the Washington-based Joint Center for Political Studies.
Cose has written several books, including "A Nation of Strangers" (1992), a history of American immigration; "The Rage of a Privileged Class" (1994) an examination of race in America; and "Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World" (1997). His most recent publication, "The Best Defense" (1998), is his first work of fiction. This novel is a legal thriller about a killer motivated by affirmative action.
Cose has received fellowships or individual grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, as well as numerous journalism awards.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master's in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5285 or visit the Assembly Series Web page (http://wupa.wustl.edu/assembly).
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