Michael Charles Janeway (May 31, 1940 – April 17, 2014) was an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of ''

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'', dean of the

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, and a professor at the

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Career

Janeway began his journalism career at

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in 1963. In 1967, he began working as an editor for the

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. He was executive editor when he departed in 1978, to join the

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newspaper. Janeway was promoted from managing editor of the Sunday Globe to editor-in-chief of the newspaper in January 1985. After several years working for the Houghton Mifflin publishing company in Boston, he was appointed dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in September 1989. He held that position until his resignation in 1997. During those years, he was also a director of the

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, and received the degree of Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. In 1977, Janeway served as special assistant to

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, during the Carter administration.

Personal life and education

Born in

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, Janeway was the son of Elizabeth Hall Janeway and

Eliot Janeway Eliot Janeway (January 1, 1913—February 8, 1993), born Eliot Jacobstein, was an American economist, journalist and author, widely quoted during his lifetime, whose career spanned seven decades. For a time his ideas gained some influence w ...

. His father was born Jewish and had changed his surname from Jacobstein. Janeway received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from

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in 1962. His brother is

William H. Janeway William Hall "Bill" Janeway CBE (born May 3, 1943) is an American venture capitalist and economist. His work on the innovation economy emphasizes the strategic role played by the state and by financial speculators. Early life and education Bill ...

, an investment banker and economist. Janeway died of cancer at his home in

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, on April 17, 2014.

Bibliography

Books written by Janeway include ''The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas & Power from FDR to LBJ'' (Columbia University Press, 2004) and ''Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life'' (Yale University Press, 1999).

References

External Links

''Time'' Sep. 9, 1985
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