Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent

Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer on the Practice of the Press and Public Policy

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Daniel Okrent is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Before his appointment as the first public editor of The New York Times in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, he was editor-at-large at Time Inc.; editor of new media for all Time Inc. publications; and managing editor of Life magazine. Okrent was the first Hearst Foundation Fellow in New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2006. His six books include Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history, and Public Editor #1, an annotated collection of his Times columns. His forthcoming Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition will be published in 2010. He will be teaching “Writing and Reporting on Politics and Policy.”

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