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Edward Wasserman
Knight Professor in journalism
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450-0303
edward_wasserman@hotmail.com
Employment:
- Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Knight Chair
in journalism, July 2003 present
- The Miami Herald columnist -- Biweekly op-ed column on
economics, business and public policy, 2000-2003.
- Media Central LLC, New York -- Editorial director. Chief
editorial officer of a Primedia Inc. subsidiary consisting of 160
magazines and newsletters covering the media, including Cable
World, American Demographics, Folio and Euromedia magazines and
Kagan World Media newsletters. Closely affiliated with Brills
Content magazine and Inside.com, the media news web site,
2001-2002.
- Daily Business Review, Miami, Fla. -- Chairman and editor in
chief. CEO & editorial chief of chain of three five-day newspapers
with 145 employees owned by American Lawyer Media and published in
Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, including a commercial
printer. Conceived and launched a successful statewide
monthly, Florida Lawyer, 1986 2000.
- The Miami Herald -- Executive business editor, deputy city
editor, assistant city editor.
19811986.
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. -- City editor, business
editor, business reporter. 1979 1981.
City University of London. -- Adjunct lecturer. Created and
taught course on media organizations, examining influence of
ownership and control on the content of news and entertainment
writing and programming, 1976 1978.
Montgomery County Sentinel, Gaithersburg, Md. -- Staff writer,
1972-1974.
Education:
- London School of Economics, Ph.D., 1980. -- Thesis was a study
of the politics and economics of technological innovation in the
telecommunications industry through a case study of the creation
of the global commercial satellite system, 1962-1974.
- University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Licence in
philosophy, 1972.
- Yale University, B.A. cum laude, politics and economics, 1970.
Other publications:
Articles and commentaries have appeared in the American
Journalism Review, Legal Times (Washington, D.C.), The Recorder (San
Francisco), Texas Lawyer (Dallas) and The Fulton County Daily Report
(Atlanta.)
Books edited:
- Andres Oppenheimer, Willful Blindness. (On corrupt
practices by U.S. multinationals in Latin America.) Published in
Spanish in 2001, awaiting U.S. publisher.)
- Ann Woolner, Washed in Gold: The Story Behind the Biggest
Money-Laundering Investigation in U.S. History. Simon &
Schuster, 1994
- Sam Dillon, Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua
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Contra Rebels. Henry Holt, 1991.
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