Thomas Feyer
Thomas Feyer (born June 2, 1953, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born American journalist, and has been letters editor of The New York Times since 1999.[1]
He has selected, edited and published letters from thousands of well-known and ordinary readers alike, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, politicians, writers, actors, business leaders, doctors, lawyers, teachers and, years before he became president, Donald J. Trump. On Oct. 18, 2018, he published The Times's first "comic strip to the editor" on the daily letters page, submitted by Stan Mack in response to a Times opinion video about fascism in America.
Feyer emigrated from Hungary to Austria with his parents in 1956, arrived in the United States in 1957 and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1962.[2]
He is a 1975 graduate of Princeton University and a 1976 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
As an editor on The Times's foreign desk from 1980 to 1999, he edited the dispatches of foreign correspondents including the Pulitzer Prize winners Thomas L. Friedman, John F. Burns, Bill Keller, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, John Darnton, Serge Schmemann, David E. Sanger, Steven Erlanger, Barry Bearak, David K. Shipler and Henry Kamm.
Feyer's work as letters editor has been cited in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Politico, The Nation, Slate, NPR, Adweek and on many other websites and blogs. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, the Huffington Post and Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.
References
- Horgan|March 28, Richard; 2017. "Dear Thomas Feyer: Your New York Times Duties Are Simply Marvelous". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2020-07-24.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- Feyer, Thomas (2004-05-23). "Opinion | Editors' Note; The Letters Editor and the Reader: Our Compact, Updated". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-24.