Michael C. Janeway

Michael Charles Janeway (May 31, 1940 – April 17, 2014) was a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was editor of the Boston Globe and dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Michael C. Janeway
BornMay 31, 1940
DiedApril 17, 2014 (age 73)
NationalityUnited States
OccupationProfessor
Newspaper editor
Known forEditor of the Boston Globe
Parent(s)Elizabeth Hall Janeway
Eliot Janeway
FamilyWilliam H. Janeway (brother)

Biography

Born in New York City, Janeway was the son of Elizabeth (née Hall) and Eliot Janeway.[1] His father was born Jewish and had changed his surname from Jacobstein.[2] He has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. He was also the executive editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He also worked for a time as special assistant to United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

Among books by Janeway are The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas & Power from FDR to LBJ (Columbia University Press, 2004) and Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life (Yale University Press, 1999).

He died of cancer at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut on April 17, 2014.[3]

His brother is William H. Janeway, a venture capitalist and economist.

gollark: I'm also hoping some sort of comparatively cheap geoengineering-type solution is developed for climate problems, because otherwise we have basically no chance of hitting the not-heating-the-world-up-a-lot targets, unless the world ends up with a totalitarian ecodictatorship or something.
gollark: Though wiping out lots of species is *probably* not a great idea, since we rely on ecosystems functioning.
gollark: The Earth is very hard to destroy.
gollark: I'm not exactly left, and it seems to have put me in "democratic socialism".
gollark: I'm libertarian center-ish and progressive.

References
  1. Johnson, Curt (1988). Who's who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets. December Press. p. 266. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  2. Schudel, Matt (April 19, 2014). "Michael C. Janeway, former Boston Globe editor and author, dies at 73". Washington Post.
  3. Kahn, Joseph (April 18, 2014). "Michael C. Janeway, 73; former Globe editor". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
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