1. Nicholas Donabet Kristof was born on April 27,1959 and is an American journalist and political commentator.
59 Facts About Nicholas Kristof
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Nicholas Kristof joined the staff of The New York Times in 1984.
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Nicholas Kristof was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up on a family sheep farm and cherry orchard in Yamhill, Oregon.
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Nicholas Kristof's father, who was born to Polish and Armenian parents in Chernivtsi, former Austria-Hungary, immigrated to the United States after World War II.
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Nicholas Kristof graduated from Yamhill Carlton High School, where he was student body president and school newspaper editor.
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Nicholas Kristof attended Harvard College, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate.
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Nicholas Kristof earned his law degree with first-class honors and won an academic prize.
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Nicholas Kristof rose to be associate managing editor of The New York Times, responsible for Sunday editions.
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Nicholas Kristof's columns have often focused on global health, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world.
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Nicholas Kristof's biography says he has traveled to more than 150 countries.
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Nicholas Kristof was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University, where he was chief marshal of commencement for his 25th reunion.
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Nicholas Kristof is a member of the board of trustees of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.
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Between 2010 and 2018 Nicholas Kristof wrote three articles about Kevin Cooper, a man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a family in California.
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On November 12,2016, Nicholas Kristof made national headlines after he chased and tackled an intruder whom he discovered burglarizing his room at the Franklin Hotel near Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
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In October 2021, Nicholas Kristof left The New York Times after forming a political action committee for his potential candidacy, saying in a statement,.
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Nicholas Kristof somehow seemed like this innocent, unchanged after dining with warlords or interviewing pimps.
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On October 27,2021, Nicholas Kristof officially announced he would run for governor as a Democrat.
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On January 6,2022, Shemia Fagan, the Oregon Secretary of State, announced that Nicholas Kristof was ineligible to run as he was judged not to have met the state's residency requirements.
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Nicholas Kristof has received the George Polk Award and an award from the Overseas Press Club for his reporting which focuses on human rights and environmental issues.
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In 2008, Nicholas Kristof received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Nicholas Kristof has won the 2008 Anne Frank Award, the 2007 Fred Cuny Award for Prevention of Deadly Conflict, and the 2013 Advancing Global Health Award.
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In 2011, Nicholas Kristof was named one of seven "Top American Leaders" by the Harvard Kennedy School and The Washington Post.
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In 2013, Nicholas Kristof was awarded the Goldsmith Award for Career Excellence in Journalism by Harvard University.
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Nicholas Kristof has co-authored all his books with his wife WuDunn, include China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity and Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.
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Nicholas Kristof explained to Jane Wales of the World Affairs Council of Northern California that the idea for their book Half the Sky was sparked by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
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WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof did not find coverage of these deaths, although they were far more numerous than the casualties at Tiananmen Square.
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Nicholas Kristof was opposed to the Iraq War and grew further opposed as time went on.
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Nicholas Kristof was criticized at the time for reporting that Iraqis opposed an American invasion.
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On May 6,2003, less than two months into the war, Nicholas Kristof published the op-ed column "Missing in Action: Truth" in which he questioned whether the intelligence gathered by the Bush administration, which purportedly indicated that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, was either faked or manipulated.
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Nicholas Kristof published several articles criticizing the missed opportunity of the "grand bargain", a proposal by Iran to normalize relations with the United States, implement procedures to assure the US it will not develop nuclear weapons, deny any monetary support to Palestinian resistance groups until they agree to stop targeting civilians, support the Arab Peace Initiative, and ensure full transparency to assuage any US concerns.
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In 2002, Nicholas Kristof wrote a series of columns indirectly suggesting that Steven Hatfill, a former US Army germ-warfare researcher named as a "person of interest" by the FBI might be a "likely culprit" in the anthrax attacks.
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The suit continued against the Times itself but was dismissed in 2004 on the basis that allegations within Nicholas Kristof's articles did not constitute defamation though they appeared untrue.
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Nicholas Kristof is particularly well known for his reporting on Sudan.
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Nicholas Kristof's biography says that he has made 11 trips to the region, some illegally by sneaking in from Chad, and on at least one occasion, he was detained at a checkpoint when the authorities seized his interpreter and Kristof refused to leave him behind.
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Nicholas Kristof's reporting from Sudan has been both praised and criticized.
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The Sudanese government has objected that Nicholas Kristof's reporting exaggerates the scale of suffering and ignores the nuances of tribal conflicts in Darfur.
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Nicholas Kristof argues that sweatshops are, if not a good thing, defensible as a way for workers to improve their lives and for impoverished countries to transform themselves into industrial economies.
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Nicholas Kristof is critical of the way "well-meaning American university students regularly campaign against sweatshops", particularly the anti-sweatshop movement's strategy of encouraging consumer boycotts against sweatshop-produced imports.
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Nicholas Kristof and WuDunn counter that the sweatshop model is a primary reason that Taiwan and South Korea, which accepted sweatshops as the price of development, are today modern countries with low rates of infant mortality and high levels of education, but India, which has generally resisted sweatshops, suffers from a high rate of infant mortality.
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Nicholas Kristof and WuDunn admit that sweatshop labor is grueling and dangerous but argue that it is an improvement over most alternatives in extremely poor countries by providing much-needed jobs and boosting economies.
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Nicholas Kristof criticizes Israel for what he views as collective punishment of Gazans and holds that the lack of negotiations only strengthens extremists.
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Nicholas Kristof advocates removing Israeli settlements from Hebron since "the financial cost is mind-boggling, and the diplomatic cost is greater".
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Nicholas Kristof then suggested that the military could serve as a model for improving American society along those lines.
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Nicholas Kristof suggests that unions sometimes encourage teachers to accept low wages in return for job security.
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Nicholas Kristof says that despite his disagreements with unions on some issues, "I roll my eyes" at what he calls a conservative narrative that unions are the fundamental problem in K-12 education.
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Nicholas Kristof has written several articles on the controversial use of flame retardants in furniture, most recently in the November 2013 piece "Danger Lurks in that Mickey Mouse Couch".
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Nicholas Kristof argues that legislative mandates of flame retardants in furniture are a result of powerfully-influential lobbyists representing the chemical industry.
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In 2012, Nicholas Kristof went as far as to write that flame retardants in furniture are "a case study of everything that is wrong with money politics".
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On December 4,2020, Nicholas Kristof published a lengthy look at the website Pornhub and at its parent company, MindGeek.
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Nicholas Kristof addressed some of the concerns raised by pro-sex work activists that he was anti-pornography.
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Nicholas Kristof served as The New York Times Tokyo bureau chief between 1995 and 1999.
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One of Nicholas Kristof's articles questioned Japanese claims on the Senkaku Islands, prompting objections and protests from Japanese officials, who contested the idea that the islands were seized from China in 1895 as spoils of war.
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Nicholas Kristof is a self-described progressive and a registered member of the Democratic Party.
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Nicholas Kristof has attributed many of his progressive views to his mother, Jane Kristof, who formerly served as treasurer of the Yamhill County Democratic Central Committee and currently serves as both her precinct committee-person and the coordinator of the Yamhill County Democratic Think Tank.
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In 2006, The New York Times launched the Win a Trip with Nick Nicholas Kristof contest, offering a college student the opportunity to win a reporting trip to Africa with Nicholas Kristof by submitting essays outlining what they intend to accomplish in such a trip.
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In March 2018 Nicholas Kristof traveled again to the Central African Republic accompanied by Tyler Pager, the former editor of The Daily Northwestern and the winner of that year's contest.
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The co-director of Columbia University's Human Rights Institute, Sarah Knuckey, described Nicholas Kristof's reporting of the Central African Republic resulting from this trip as "shallow" and "reckless".
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Nicholas Kristof married Sheryl WuDunn, a third-generation Chinese American, in 1988.
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In 2022, Nicholas Kristof told the Willamette Week that "[t]he plan is to continue to base myself on the farm here in Yamhill, but spend a week every month or two in New York", as part of his obligations as a columnist for The New York Times.