Michael Massing

Michael Massing is a former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books . His work has also appeared in the New York Times , the Nation , the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Fix , a critical study of the U.S. war on drugs, and Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq . He is a co-founder of the Committee to Protect Journalists and sits on its board. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard...See more

Michael Massing is a former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books . His work has also appeared in the New York Times , the Nation , the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Fix , a critical study of the U.S. war on drugs, and Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq . He is a co-founder of the Committee to Protect Journalists and sits on its board. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1992, he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2010-2011 he was fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY. A native of Baltimore, he lives in New York City. See less