Michael Charles Janeway (May 31, 1940 – April 17, 2014) was an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of ''
The Boston Globe'', dean of the
Medill School of Journalism at
Northwestern University, and a professor at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Career
Janeway began his journalism career at
Newsday
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in 1963.
In 1967, he began working as an editor for the
Atlantic Monthly
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
. He was executive editor when he departed in 1978, to join the
Boston Globe 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
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 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
United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
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, during the Carter administration.
Personal life and education
Born in
New York City, 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
Harvard University 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
Lakeville, Connecticut, 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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1940 births
2014 deaths
People from Lakeville, Connecticut
Harvard University alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty
American male journalists
American people of Jewish descent
The Boston Globe people
Deaths from cancer in Connecticut