Frederick Samuel Hiatt was an American journalist.
19 Facts About Fred Hiatt
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Fred Hiatt was the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, where he oversaw the newspaper's opinion pages and wrote editorials and a biweekly column.
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Fred Hiatt was part of the Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
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Fred Hiatt grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, after his father was named dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Fred Hiatt graduated from Harvard University in 1977, where he wrote at least 22 articles for The Harvard Crimson.
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Fred Hiatt was married to Washington Post editor and writer Margaret "Pooh" Shapiro from 1984 until his death; the couple lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and had three children.
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Fred Hiatt first reported for The Atlanta Journal and The Washington Star.
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At the Post, Fred Hiatt initially reported on government, politics, development and other topics in Fairfax County and statewide in Virginia.
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The Posts editorial board prior to Fred Hiatt's appointment was described by then-editor Meg Greenfield as collectively having "the sensibility of 1950s liberals," by which she meant that it was generally conservative on foreign policy and national defense and generally liberal on social issues.
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Fred Hiatt intensified the online presence of The Washington Posts opinions sections with the addition of bloggers such as Greg Sargent, Jennifer Rubin, Alexandra Petri, and Jonathan Capehart.
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On environmental issues, The Post supported the controversial Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline, and Hiatt himself came under fire for refusing to hold Post columnist George F Will accountable for misrepresenting scientific evidence in a column in which Will attacked the veracity of global warming.
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Several media commentators expressed the view that The Posts editorial position under Fred Hiatt moved towards a neoconservative position on foreign policy issues.
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Human rights attorney Scott Horton in a blog post for Harper's Magazine, writes that Fred Hiatt presided over a "clear trend" towards neoconservative columnists.
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Jamison Foser, a senior fellow at the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America, said that The Posts editorial stance under Fred Hiatt is neoconservative on foreign affairs and is no longer liberal on many domestic issues.
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The National Journal reported in November 2014, that Fred Hiatt had offered his resignation to Jeff Bezos, the new owner of The Post, but had been retained.
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An editorial Fred Hiatt edited on the Jan 6,2021 Capitol riot was part of the package that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
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Fred Hiatt was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a foreign-policy think tank, and presided over events hosted by the organization.
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In December 2009, Fred Hiatt was a featured speaker at the Tokyo Foundation conference entitled "Japan after the Change: Perspectives of Western Opinion Leaders".
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Fred Hiatt wrote The Secret Sun: A Novel of Japan, which was published in 1992, as well as two books for children, If I Were Queen of the World and Baby Talk.