Jonathan Kaufman
Jonathan Kaufman is a journalist, author, and professor at Northeastern University. He was born in New York City on April 18, 1956, and studied at Yale College and Harvard University.
He is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and editor and serves as the Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism.
Before Northeastern, he was Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing more than 300 reporters and editors. Under his leadership, Bloomberg’s team won many awards, including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, the Osborn Elliott Prize, and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize.
Previously, Kaufman was a senior editor and the Beijing Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, and a reporter and the Berlin Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe. He was part of a Globe team that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on racism and job discrimination in Boston.
His work focuses on the role of Jews in politics worldwide, media challenges in the 21st century and during the Trump era, race and class in the United States, and Chinese politics, economy, and relations with the United States.
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