Joel Dreyfuss | |
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| Born | September 1945 (age 78) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York (1971) |
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| Years active | before Dec 1979 – c. Sep 2011 |
| Spouse | Veronica Pollard |
Joel Dreyfuss (born September 1945) is a Haitian-American retired editor and journalist.
Personal life
A Haitian-American, Joel Dreyfuss was born in September 1945 in Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti.[1] He grew up in Monrovia, New York City, and Paris.[2] In 1971, Dreyfuss graduated from City College of New York, and five years later moved to San Francisco.[3]
By February 2012, he and his wife, Veronica Pollard, had moved to Paris to research Dreyfuss' family history and write a book chronicling their emigration from Africa to France and Haiti. His first draft was finished by late 2016.[1]
Career
Dreyfuss co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists,[2] and he was a nominating judge for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.[4] In 1989, Dreyfuss co-authored The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke) with Charles Lawrence III.[3] By December 2009, Dreyfuss' career was over 30 years old.[5]
He has worked for the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Fortune, KPIX-TV, KQED-FM, the New York Post, USA Today, The Washington Post,[5] and WNET.[3] He has been a magazine editor for Black Enterprise, InformationWeek, PC Magazine, The Root,[1] and Red Herring.[2]
In September 2011, Dreyfuss decided to retire.[1] In mid-2016, he became a contributing columnist for The Washington Post's Global Opinions initiative.[2] As of March 2023[update], Dreyfuss was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, having been so since at least February 2019.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Dreifus, Claudia (August 4, 2017). "Writing the Script for Your Next Act". The New York Times. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on August 31, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
- ^ a b c d Hiatt, Fred; Diehl, Jackson; Marcus, Ruth (June 9, 2016). "Joel Dreyfuss joins The Post's Global Opinions section as a contributor". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 2269358. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Joel Dreyfuss". City College of New York. Archived from the original on November 12, 2018. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
- ^ "Nominating Judges Are Chosen for Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism". The New York Times. January 5, 1981. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on January 25, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
- ^ a b Ernst, Amanda, "The Root Names New Managing Editor", Adweek, ISSN 0199-2864, archived from the original on April 21, 2019
- ^ "Membership Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
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