Jim Naureckas (born 1964 in

Libertyville, Illinois Libertyville is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and a northern suburb of Chicago. It is located west of Lake Michigan on the Des Plaines River. The 2020 census population was 20,579. It is part of Libertyville Township, Lake ...

) is the editor of ''

Extra! ''Extra!'' is a monthly magazine of media criticism published by the media watch group FAIR. First published in 1987, its first full-time editor was Martin A. Lee. Since 1990, it has been edited by Jim Naureckas. The magazine covers a wide vari ...

'', the magazine of FAIR ( Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). He graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

. He covered the Iran-Contra scandal for the magazine '' In These Times'', and was managing editor of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs' newsletter. Naureckas became the editor of ''Extra!'' in 1990. He is the co-author of ''The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error'' (

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). He is editor of the New York City fan site NYSonglines.com. In 1997, he married

Janine Jackson Janine Jackson (born January 30, 1965 in Wilmington, Delaware) is the program director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), and the host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show ''CounterSpin''—a weekly program of media criticism a ...

, the program director of FAIR.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Naureckas, Jim 1964 births Living people Stanford University alumni American people of Lithuanian descent American male journalists American alternative journalists American media critics