Jonathan Kaufman
Journalist, Author, Professor at Northeastern University
Personal details
Born	(1956-04-18) April 18, 1956 (age 67) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale College Harvard University

Jonathan Kaufman (born April 18, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter,^[1] author, editor, Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism,^[2] and professor of journalism.^[3]

Career

Prior to joining Northeastern, he was an Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing more than 300 reporters and editors.^[4] Under his leadership, Kaufman's team at Bloomberg won numerous awards including a 2015 Pulitzer Prize, several George Polk Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, the Osborn Elliott Prize of the Asia Society, and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize.^[5]

Prior to Bloomberg, Kaufman was a senior editor and Beijing Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal^[6] and a reporter and Berlin Bureau Chief at the Boston Globe where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series examining racism and job discrimination in Boston.^[7]

Kaufman's specialties are the role of Jews in American politics and around the world;^[8] the challenges facing media in the 21st century and in the age of President Donald Trump;^[9] race relations and class in the United States;^[10] and Chinese politics, economy and relations with the United States.^[11]

Publications

• Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America^[12] won the National Jewish Book Award.^[13] It was hailed by African-American and white reviewers as gripping, insightful and fair and is still used widely in college classrooms.^[14]
• A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe^[15] was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Reviews called it “deeply engrossing,”^[16] and “beautifully written.”^[17]
• The Last Kings of Shanghai. Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China (Little Brown, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4087-1004-3).^[18]

Honors and awards

• Pulitzer Prize for Special Local Reporting, 1984, for a series in The Boston Globe on racism and job discrimination in Boston.^[19]
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting, 1985, for a series in The Boston Globe on neighborhood activists in Boston.^[20]
• National Jewish Book Award for Broken Alliance, 1989.^[21]
• National Headliner Award, 1997, for a series in The Wall Street Journal on the changing nature of work and worker's lives.^[22]
• Unity in Media Award, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.^[23]
• American Jewish Committee Present Tense Award for Best Book on Current Affairs for Broken Alliance, 1989.
• Finalist, National Jewish Book Award for A Hole in the Heart of the World, 1997.
• Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 2008, for a portfolio of stories on how race and gender have impacted the presidential primary races.
• Columbia University School of Journalism School Award for Coverage of Race and Ethnicity, 1999, for articles in the Wall Street Journal on the impact of incarceration on black families.
• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, 2015, for a Bloomberg News series on corporate tax dodging.^[24]
• Asia Society/Osborn Elliott Award for Coverage of Asia, 2015, for a Bloomberg series on companies in India killing villagers and others through pollution and environmental abuse.^[25]
• Gerald Loeb Award,^[26] George Polk Award,^[27] and Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Public Service,^[28] 2011, for a Bloomberg series on financial abuses by for-profit colleges.
• Overseas Press Club Award, 2011, for a Bloomberg Businessweek story on Chinese students gaming the SATs to gain admittance to American colleges.^[29]
• George Polk Award, 2012, for a Bloomberg series on abuses in the student loan industry.^[30]