Glenn Kramon (born May 25, 1953) is an American journalist. He is an assistant
managing editor
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United States
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of ''
The New York Times
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'', a post he has held since 2006.
Career
Glenn Kramon started his journalism career in 1975 at
The Kansas City Star
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after graduating from
Stanford University
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. In 1977, he joined
The San Francisco Examiner
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Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
where he held various positions including business editor, Sunday news editor and reporter. In 1987, Kramon joined The Times as a copy editor and health care reporter. Soon after, he held the positions of assignment editor, technology editor, enterprise editor, Sunday business editor and deputy business editor. He went on to become the paper's Business editor, overseeing the paper's financial news staff, from 1997 to 2003. In 2003,
UCLA
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's
Gerald Loeb Award
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honored Kramon by bestowing upon him the
Lawrence Minard Editor Award, recognizing an outstanding editor who does not receive a byline.
In his current role as an assistant managing editor, he oversees long-form projects "with a mandate to stimulate and manage original New York Times reporting ventures across the newsroom."
Awards
In addition to receiving the
Minard Editor Award, Kramon has supervised and edited reporters who have won nine
Pulitzer Prizes
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, and have been finalists for the Pulitzer 24 times.
They have also earned a number of other honors including nine
George Polk
George Polk (October 17, 1913 – May 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who was murdered during the Greek Civil War, in 1948.
World War II
During World War II, Polk enlisted with a Naval Construction Battalion. After the invasion of Guad ...
awards for courageous journalism, seven
Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business journalism, the
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
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and the
Grantham Prize The Grantham Prize was an annual journalism award awarded between September 2005 and October 2012. It was established by Jeremy Grantham and Hannelore Grantham and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting to annually recognize th ...
for environmental reporting.
References
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The New York Times masthead editors
Stanford University alumni
Living people
1953 births
American newspaper editors
Scarsdale High School alumni
Minard Editor Award winners