Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent completed his term as the first public editor of the New York Times in May 2005. He was for many years an editorial executive at Time Inc., serving variously as managing editor of Life, corporate editor of new media, and corporate editor-at-large. Okrent was founding editor of New England Monthly, where he twice consecutively won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He is also the author of several books, most recently Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. His research at the Shorenstein Center was divided between his book Public Editor #1, an inquiry into the role of ombudsmen, and a study of newspaper influence on public opinion in the 1920s.