Michael Massing is an American writer based in New York City. He is a former executive editor of the ''
Columbia Journalism Review''. He received a bachelor's degree from
Harvard College and a master's degree from the
London School of Economics. He often writes for the ''New York Review of Books'' on the media, politics, and foreign affairs. He has also written for ''
The American Prospect'', ''
The New York Times'', ''
The Nation'', ''
The New Yorker'', ''
The Guardian'', ''
Politico'', and ''
The Atlantic''. His book ''The Fix'' offers a critique of the U.S. war on drugs. ''Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq'' is a collection of articles which first appeared in ''
The New York Review of Books'' and analyzes the press coverage of the Iraq war. A later book, ''Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind'', concerns the rivalry between those two men and the movements they represented—Christian humanism and evangelical Christianity; ''The New York Times'' named it a Notable Book of 2018. Massing is co-founder of the
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and currently sits on its board. He is also a board member of the
Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 1992, he was named a
MacArthur Fellow, and in 2011 he was a fellow at the Leon Levy Biography Center at the
City University of New York Graduate Center.
Raised in Baltimore, Massing attended the
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
Awards
* Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship (1989)
Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
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* MacArthur Fellow (1992)
* Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting (2005)
Selected articles
"The Storm over the Israel Lobby," New York Review of Books – June 8, 2006
"Digital Journalism: How Good Is It?" New York Review of Books, June 4, 2015
"Digital Journalism: The Next Generation," June 25, 2015
"Reimagining Journalism; The Story of the One Percent," New York Review of Books, December 17, 2015
"How to Cover the One Percent," New York Review of Books, January 14, 2016
"How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump," April 19, 2018
"Journalism in the Age of Trump: What's Missing and What Matters," July 19, 2018
;Books
* ''The Fix''. Simon & Schuster, 1998 (paperback: University of California Press, 2000).
* ''Now They Tell Us: the American Press and Iraq''. New York Review Books, 2004 (introduction by Orville Schell).
* ''Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind''. Harper, 2018.
References
External links
Michael Massing's articles in The Nation
Articles in The New York Review of Books
Articles in the Columbia Journalism Review
Articles in The American Prospect
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Living people
American essayists
American foreign policy writers
American male non-fiction writers
American male journalists
American political writers
American investigative journalists
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Harvard University alumni
MacArthur Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male essayists
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