Victor Saul Navasky was an American journalist, editor, and author.
23 Facts About Victor Navasky
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Victor Navasky then went on to direct the George T Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and to chair the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Victor Saul Navasky was born in July 1932 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the son of Esther and Macy Navasky.
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Victor Navasky was a graduate of Swarthmore College where he edited the student newspaper.
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Victor Navasky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received high honors in the social sciences.
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Victor Navasky then served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956.
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Victor Navasky was stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska and dabbled a bit as a military journalist.
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Victor Navasky recruited numerous contributors and illustrators for the magazine who went on to noteworthy careers.
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Victor Navasky worked as a manuscript editor and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and was a frequent book reviewer.
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Victor Navasky wrote a New York Times Book Review monthly column, "In Cold Print", about the publishing business.
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In 1978, Victor Navasky was named editor of America's oldest weekly magazine, The Nation.
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In one of his most controversial editorial stances, Victor Navasky was a longtime defender of alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
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Victor Navasky researched and wrote several non-fiction books of biography and history.
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Victor Navasky then embarked on an eight-year effort to study the Hollywood blacklist.
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Victor Navasky paid particular attention to the role of informers, a topic he had become interested in while learning about a pivotal informer in Attorney General Kennedy's case against Jimmy Hoffa.
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In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence from The Nation, Victor Navasky served as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University.
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Victor Navasky then became the magazine's publisher and editorial director for the next ten years.
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Victor Navasky was a member of the board of Independent Diplomat, and a regular commentator on the public radio program Marketplace.
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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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In 2005, he was named chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, which engendered controversy when Victor Navasky's name was not listed on the magazine's masthead.
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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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In 2013, Victor Navasky published his final book, The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power, which looked at the impact over the centuries of provocative political cartoons.
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Victor Navasky died in a Manhattan hospital on January 23,2023.