Brian Carney (editorialist)
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Brian M. Carney is an editor, journalist and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
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Since August 2009, he has been living in London and serving as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the coauthor, with Isaac Getz, of Freedom, Inc., When times are tough published by Crown Business on Oct. 13, 2009. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize.
, where he majored in philosophy and was the 93rd Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale)
. He was also involved in the Yale Political Union
. He then went on to receive a master's degree in philosophy from Boston University
. Before becoming a Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member he was the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe
. Prior to that he worked for the "Innovations in American Government" program at Harvard University
. After college, he spent a winter working as a sternman on a lobster boat on Monhegan Island, Maine.
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board members oversee the journal's editorial page and represent the newspaper and its editorial page publicly. The WSJ does not provide details on the exact duties of board members....
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Since August 2009, he has been living in London and serving as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the coauthor, with Isaac Getz, of Freedom, Inc., When times are tough published by Crown Business on Oct. 13, 2009. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize.
Biography
Carney attended Yale CollegeYale College
Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.-Residential colleges:...
, where he majored in philosophy and was the 93rd Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale)
Party of the Right (Yale)
The Party of the Right is a fraternal, political, and intellectual organization founded in 1953, functioning secondarily as one of the parties within the Yale Political Union. The POR was founded by genuinely conservative members of the Conservative Party, outraged by the Conservative Party's...
. He was also involved in the Yale Political Union
Yale Political Union
The Yale Political Union , a debate society now the largest student organization at Yale University, was founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold , to enliven the university's political culture of the time. It was modelled on the Cambridge Union Society and Oxford Union...
. He then went on to receive a master's degree in philosophy from Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. Before becoming a Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member he was the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe
The Wall Street Journal Europe
The Wall Street Journal Europe is a daily English-language newspaper that covers global and regional business news for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
. Prior to that he worked for the "Innovations in American Government" program at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. After college, he spent a winter working as a sternman on a lobster boat on Monhegan Island, Maine.
Books
- Freedom, Inc.: The Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productivity, Profits, and Growth, Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz, Random House, Inc., 2009, ISBN 9780307409386
External links
- "Brian Carney", The Wall Street Journal