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James R. Gaines (born August 11, 1947) is the Americas Editor of Reuters News. Previously, he was the founder and editor-in-chief of StoryRiver Media, a Washington, D.C.-based digital/multimedia content company.

Prior to founding StoryRiver Media, Gaines served as editor-in-chief of FLYP, an online "magazine" combining text, video, audio, animation and interactivity.

He was formerly the managing editor of Time, Life, and People magazines between 1987 and 1996, and subsequently, the corporate editor of Time Inc. ^[1]

He was both managing editor and publisher of Life, the first time that one person held both the chief editorial and publishing jobs at a Time-Life magazine. He was also the first person to run three Time-Life magazines.

Gaines began his career at Saturday Review, before moving on to Newsweek, where he was a National Affairs Writer.

He is the author of four works of narrative history, including Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977); Evening in the Palace of Reason, which explored the conflict between faith and reason through a fateful meeting between Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great (HarperCollins, 2005)^[2]; and For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (W. W. Norton, 2007).^[3]

A graduate of New York’s McBurney School and the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association. He and his family recently returned to the United States after six years in Paris. They live in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (1977)
The Lives of the Piano (1981)
Evening in the Palace of Reason (2005)
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions (2007)

External links

FLYP Media

Footnotes

^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983923,00.html Time magazine “To Our Readers” column by Norman Pearlstine, January 8, 1996
^ http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1385499,00.html John Banning’s review of Evening in the Palace of Reason, The Guardian, January 8, 2005
^ For Liberty and Glory (Main Page)

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[1] ttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983923,00.html Time magazine “To Our Readers” column by Norman Pearlstine, January 8, 1996

[2] ttp://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1385499,00.html John Banning’s review of Evening in the Palace of Reason, The Guardian, January 8, 2005

[3] For Liberty and Glory (Main Page)

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-'''James R. Gaines''' (born August 11, 1947) is an American [[journalist]], author, and international publishing consultant who is best known as a magazine editor. Gaines is the founder and editor-in-chief of StoryRiver Media, a Washington, D.C.-based digital/multimedia content consulting company that deploys advanced solutions and tools for multimedia story-telling for corporate, non-profit, government, and media clients.
+'''James R. Gaines''' (born August 11, 1947) is the Americas Editor of Reuters News. Previously, he was the founder and editor-in-chief of StoryRiver Media, a Washington, D.C.-based digital/multimedia content company.
-Prior to founding StoryRiver Media, Gaines served as editor-in-chief of FLYP, a dynamic online, multimedia magazine that combines text, video, audio, animation and interactivity into a pioneering form of storytelling.
+Prior to founding StoryRiver Media, Gaines served as editor-in-chief of FLYP, an online "magazine" combining text, video, audio, animation and interactivity.
 He was formerly the managing editor of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', and ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazines between 1987 and 1996, and subsequently, the corporate editor of [[Time Inc.]] <ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983923,00.html  Time magazine “To Our Readers” column by Norman Pearlstine, January 8, 1996</ref>
+He was both managing editor and publisher of ''Life'', the first time that one person held both the chief editorial and publishing jobs at a Time-Life magazine. He was also the first person to run three Time-Life magazines.
-At each of these major publications, Gaines established online and multimedia ventures and protocols, including a regular syndicated ''People'' television program; TV network specials; ''People'' books (“[[bookazine]]s”); custom publishing at ''Life''; and the online and classroom editions of ''Time''. After leaving Time Inc. as Corporate Editor in 1997, Gaines created ''[[Travel + Leisure]]/Golf'' for [[American Express]] Publishing.
-He was both managing editor and publisher of ''Life'', the first time that one person held both the chief editorial and publishing jobs at a Time-Life magazine. His reinvention of ''Life'' as a weekly newsmagazine for the first [[Iran–Iraq War|Persian Gulf War]] led to his appointment to the editorship of ''Time'', making him the first person ever to run three Time-Life magazines.
 Gaines began his career at ''[[Saturday Review (US magazine)|Saturday Review]]'', before moving on to ''Newsweek'', where he was a National Affairs Writer.
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 He is the author of four works of narrative history, including ''Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table'' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977); ''Evening in the Palace of Reason'', which explored the conflict between faith and reason through a fateful meeting between [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] and [[Frederick the Great]] (HarperCollins, 2005)<ref>http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1385499,00.html John Banning’s review of Evening in the Palace of Reason, The Guardian, January 8, 2005</ref>''; and For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions'' (W. W. Norton, 2007).<ref>[http://www2.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall07/006138.htm For Liberty and Glory (Main Page)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-A graduate of New York’s [[McBurney School]] and the [[University of Michigan]], Gaines is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association. He and his family recently returned to the United States after six years in Paris. They live in Washington, D.C.
+A graduate of New York’s [[McBurney School]] and the [[University of Michigan]], Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association. He and his family recently returned to the United States after six years in Paris. They live in Washington, D.C.
-While senior editor of ''Time'' Magazine, Jim Gaines granted permission to his all-white staff to darken the mugshot of the former football star and actor O.J. Simpson during Simpson's 1994 murder case.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mann, Zatz|first=Corame R, Marjone S|title=Images of Color, Images of Crime|year=2002|publisher=Roxbury Publishing Co.|location=LA, California|pages=76}}</ref> When Gaines was questioned at the 1994 convention of the National Association of Black Journalists as to why he allowed Simpson's mugshot to be darkened, he replied, "If I had known... I would have reconsidered, I think. I hope. Clearly, the effect of the cover was terrible, and it was clearly an example of racial insensitivity... If there had been an African American at that place at that time, I'm sure we wouldn't have run the cover."
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