Joseph Lelyveld
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Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001. In all, Lelyveld worked at the Times for nearly 40 years, starting out in 1960 as a copy editor and becoming a foreign correspondent within three years. He was replaced by Howell Raines, who resigned in 2003 because of the scandal surrounding the activities of Jayson Blair, a reporter on the National desk. On Raines' resignation, Lelyveld briefly became executive editor while the paper sought a replacement for Raines. Lelyveld stepped down later that year to make way for Bill Keller, who had initially been passed over for the top position in favor of Raines.
While he was a reporter for the New York Times, he received the 1971 George Polk Award for Education Reporting and the 1983 award for Foreign Reporting.
Among Lelyveld's books is Move Your Shadow, based on his reporting in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960's and 1980's. He was also foreign editor of the Times.
His father was the Reform Judaism leader, Arthur Lelyveld.
[edit] Bibliography
- Move Your Shadow: South Afica, Black and White. New York: Crown, 1985. ISBN 0812912373 ISBN 978-0812912371
- Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ISBN 0374225907 ISBN 978-0374225902
