14 Facts About Victor Navasky

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Victor Saul Navasky was an American journalist, editor, and academic.

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Victor Navasky was publisher emeritus of The Nation and George T Delacorte Professor Emeritus of Professional Practice in Magazine Journalism at Columbia University.

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Victor Navasky was editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995 and its publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005.

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Victor Navasky was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of Esther and Macy Victor Navasky.

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Victor Navasky was a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received high honors in the social sciences.

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Victor Navasky wrote a monthly column about the publishing business for the Times Book Review.

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Victor Navasky was named the editor of The Nation in 1978.

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Victor Navasky was a supporter of alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss, having published vociferous defences of the man's innocence in The Nation both during his lifetime and after.

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Victor Navasky served as a Guggenheim fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

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Victor Navasky taught at a number of colleges and universities and contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion.

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In 2005, Victor Navasky was named chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review.

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In 2005, Victor Navasky received the George Polk Book Award given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.

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Victor Navasky served on the boards of the Authors Guild, International PEN, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Victor Navasky died from pneumonia at a hospital in Manhattan on January 23,2023, at the age of 90.