Joseph Kahn (journalist)

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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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| relatives = Leo Kahn (father)

| education = Harvard University (BA, MA)

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Joseph F. Kahn (born August 19, 1964) is an American journalist who currently serves as executive editor of The New York Times.

Education

Kahn attended Middlesex School as a boarding student,{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/media/joseph-kahn-new-york-times.html | title=A Quiet Intensity, Matched with Big Ambitions | work=The New York Times | date=April 19, 2022 | last1=Grynbaum | first1=Michael M. }} serving as editor-in-chief of both the school newspaper and its literary magazine before graduating in 1983.https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1732289190/mxschooledu/tkarhavwtllxhbgnhvuu/MXBulletinFall2024.pdf He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American history in 1987 and served as president of The Harvard Crimson.{{citation |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/7/1/editor-for-this-issue-pbpresidentb-joseph/|title=The Harvard Crimson: Editor For This Issue; 1986, July 1st.}} In 1990, he received a master's degree in East Asian studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite news |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael M. |last2=Windolf |first2=Jim |date=2022-04-19 |title=Joe Kahn Is Named Next Executive Editor of The New York Times |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/media/joe-kahn-dean-baquet-new-york-times.html |access-date=2022-04-19 |issn=0362-4331}}

Career

Kahn joined the Times in January 1998, after four years as China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Before the Journal, he was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for international reporting for their stories on violence against women around the world. In June 1989, the Chinese government ordered Kahn to leave the country because he was working as a reporter while using a tourist visa.{{Cite news |last1=Kristof |first1=Nicholas D. |date=1989-06-20 |title=Chinese Premier Says More Arrests Are Expected |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/20/world/chinese-premier-says-more-arrests-are-expected.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2006, Kahn and Jim Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2006/international-reporting/bio/|title=The Pulitzer Prizes}} for the Times covering rule of law in China, including their coverage of the detention of American-Chinese entrepreneur David Ji.

Kahn was assistant masthead editor for International at the New York Times from 2014 to September 2016.{{Cite news |last=Ember |first=Sydney |date=2016-09-16 |title=New York Times Reinstates Managing Editor Role and Appoints Joseph Kahn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/business/media/new-york-times-reinstates-managing-editor-role-appoints-joseph-kahn.html |access-date=2022-04-19 |issn=0362-4331}} In 2016, Dean Baquet appointed him as managing editor for the Times, where in time he was recognized as Baquet's likely successor as executive editor.{{Cite news |last=Folkenflik |first=David |date=2022-06-08 |title=The New York Times' new editor will run its biggest newsroom ever — and most outspoken |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1102233666/nyt-editor-joe-kahn |access-date=2023-10-28}}

Personal life

Kahn's grandparents on his father's side were Jewish from Lithuanian. His mother's parents were immigrants from Ireland. Kahn is the eldest child of Dorothy Davidson and Leo Kahn (1916–2011),{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/business/13kahn.html|title=Leo Kahn, Trailblazer in Big-Box Retailing, Dies at 94|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=12 May 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=7 May 2012}}{{Cite news|first= Ron|last=Kampeas |authorlink= |title= New York Times makes Joseph Kahn its 5th Jewish executive editor since 1964 |newspaper=The Times of Israel|date=April 20, 2022 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-times-makes-joseph-kahn-its-5th-jewish-executive-editor-since-1964/ |via=}} founder of the Purity Supreme supermarket chain in New England and co-founder of the global office supply chain Staples.{{Cite news |last=Marquard |first=Bryan |date=2011-05-13 |title=Kind-hearted entrepreneur Leo Kahn dies |work=Boston.com |url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/05/13/kind_hearted_entrepreneur_leo_kahn_dies/ |access-date=2022-04-19}} Leo had been awarded a journalism degree from Columbia University, after which he briefly had worked as a reporter, prompting a continuing interest in journalism that was reflected in his frequent dissection of newspaper coverage with his son.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080104215616/http://www.observer.com/2008/reporter-comes-cold Interview with Kahn about being a journalist in China]
{{Charlie Rose guest|4187}}
{{C-SPAN|65676}}

Category:1964 births

Category:Journalists from Boston

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Category:American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent

Category:American male journalists

Category:Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners

Category:The New York Times editors

Category:The Dallas Morning News people

Category:20th-century American journalists

Category:Jewish American journalists

Category:The New York Times people

Category:The Harvard Crimson people