Michael Massing
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Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review
Columbia Journalism Review
The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....

. Michael Massing received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard
Harvard University
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 and an MS from the London School of Economics and Political Science
London School of Economics
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. He often writes for the New York Review of Books concerning the media and foreign affairs. He has written for The American Prospect
The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics...

, The New York Times
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, The New Yorker
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and the Atlantic Monthly. In addition to his magazine contributions, he has written on the War on Drugs
War on Drugs
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 in his book, The Fix (2002), and on American journalism, Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. Massing received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.

Awards

  • Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting (2005)
  • MacArthur Fellow (1992)
  • Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship (1989)

Selected bibliography


Works

  • Massing, Michael. The Fix. 1st ed. Univ. of California Pr., 2000.
  • Massing, Michael, and Orville Schell. Now They Tell Us: the American Press and Iraq. Paperback ed. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
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