Neal B. Freeman
{{short description|American businessman and political writer}}
Neal B. Freeman (born July 5, 1940, in New York City) is an American businessman and political writer. He served as the Washington Editor for National Review magazine from 1978 until 1981. Freeman graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale in 1962.{{cite book|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985}}
In 1981, he founded The Blackwell Corporation,{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=1093946&ticker=RTIX&previousCapId=188685&previousTitle=SPIRE%20CORP|title=Executive Profile Neal B. Freeman: Former Director, RTI Surgical Inc.|accessdate=2014-08-31}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} an advisory firm with clients in communications, defense, and wealth management. He previously worked as an executive with the Hearst Corporation and was appointed by President Reagan as Director of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.{{cite web|url=http://www.isi.org/bios/bio.aspx?id=bfad069d-99e0-48b4-b273-a847df989af4&|title=Neal B. Freeman|accessdate=2014-08-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903152802/http://www.isi.org/bios/bio.aspx?id=bfad069d-99e0-48b4-b273-a847df989af4&|archive-date=2014-09-03|url-status=dead}} In 2017, Freeman selected 79 of his previously published writings and addresses to audiences for book publication.{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Neal B. |date=2017 |title=Skirmishes |publisher=National Review Books |isbn=978-0-9847650-5-8}}
He is the father of James Freeman, assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.
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Category:20th-century American writers
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Category:Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Category:National Review people
Category:Yale University alumni
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Category:American male journalists
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