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Born | Joseph Salem Lelyveld April 5, 1937 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | January 5, 2024 New York City, U.S. | (aged 86)
Education | Harvard University (BA, MA) Columbia University (MS) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
Known for | Executive editor of The New York Times (1994–2001), earning a Pulitzer Prize for Move Your Shadow, controversy over book Great Soul |
Children | 2 daughters |
Joseph Salem Lelyveld (April 5, 1937 – January 5, 2024) was an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines.[1] He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.