Stephen Isaacs

Stephen Isaacs

Steve Isaacs comes from a newspaper family and started selling articles at age 15. Since then, he has worked for a dozen newspapers, for CBS News, ABC News and for the Public Broadcasting System, and has written two books, Jews and American Politics (Doubleday) and Paper Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of America’s Great Newspaper Families. Isaacs was financial editor of the Louisville ( Ky.) Times at the age of 21. At 22, he was working for such British journals as The Guardian and the Economist. He became city editor of The Washington Post at age 26 and later became editor of the Post’s magazines, chief of the newspaper’s New York Bureau, a national correspondent, political reporter and, finally, director of the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. He was made editor of The Minneapolis Star in 1978 and, in 1982, became a producer at CBS News. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1988 as the Gannett Foundation Visiting Professor, and was named a full professor the following year. He became involved with expanding the potential uses of computers in the newsroom three decades ago.

During more than forty years in journalism, he has held almost every position a newspaper offers, has edited magazines, served as a television field producer, and has written hundreds of articles for books, magazines; and newspapers. He is a graduate of Harvard.