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'''Timothy Robert Noah''' (born 1958)<ref name=emroweeht/> is an American [[journalist]]. He was a senior editor of [[The New Republic]],<ref>"On Media: Jonathan Chait to New York; Timothy Noah to New Republic, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0911/Jonathan_Chait_to_New_York_Timothy_Noah_to_New_Republic.html ''[[Politico (newspaper)|Politico]],'' September 6, 2011].</ref><ref>Richard Just, "Home News: TNR Hires Timothy Noah," [http://www.tnr.com/article/94634/tnr-hires-tim-noah ''[[The New Republic]]'', September 6, 2011].</ref> where he wrote the TRB column. Noah is also a contributing editor to ''[[The Washington Monthly]]'' and a frequent commentator on CBS News' ''Sunday Morning.'' In 2010 Noah was a [[National Magazine Award]] finalist in the online news reporting category for his coverage of the health care reform bill, and for a decade he wrote ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Chatterbox" column.
'''Timothy Robert Noah''' (born 1958)<ref name=emroweeht/> is an American [[journalist]]. He was a senior editor of [[The New Republic]],<ref>"On Media: Jonathan Chait to New York; Timothy Noah to New Republic, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0911/Jonathan_Chait_to_New_York_Timothy_Noah_to_New_Republic.html ''[[Politico (newspaper)|Politico]],'' September 6, 2011].</ref><ref>Richard Just, "Home News: TNR Hires Timothy Noah," [http://www.tnr.com/article/94634/tnr-hires-tim-noah ''[[The New Republic]]'', September 6, 2011].</ref><ref>Michael Calderone, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/the-new-republic-fires-timothy-noah_b_2934954.html The New Republic Fires Timothy Noah], [[The Huffington Post]], March 22, 2013</ref> where he wrote the TRB column. Noah is also a contributing editor to ''[[The Washington Monthly]]'' and a frequent commentator on CBS News' ''Sunday Morning.'' In 2010 Noah was a [[National Magazine Award]] finalist in the online news reporting category for his coverage of the health care reform bill, and for a decade he wrote ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Chatterbox" column.


==Early life and career==
==Early life and career==

Revision as of 20:54, 22 March 2013

For the American songwriter, singer, and children's entertainer, see Tim Noah.
Timothy Noah
Born
Timothy Robert Noah[1]

1958[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist,
SpouseMarjorie Williams (until 2005)
RelativesAdam Levine (nephew)

Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958)[1] is an American journalist. He was a senior editor of The New Republic,[2][3][4] where he wrote the TRB column. Noah is also a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly and a frequent commentator on CBS News' Sunday Morning. In 2010 Noah was a National Magazine Award finalist in the online news reporting category for his coverage of the health care reform bill, and for a decade he wrote Slate's "Chatterbox" column.

Early life and career

Noah is the son of Marian Jane (née Swentor) and Robert M. Noah, a television producer.[1][5] He grew up in New Rochelle, NY, and Beverly Hills, CA. His father is Jewish and his mother is Protestant, and he describes himself as an atheist.[6] He is a graduate of Harvard College, from which he obtained a degree in English in 1980,[7] and where he was on the prose board of the Harvard Advocate. He lives in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]

Noah was an assistant managing editor at U.S. News and World Report, a Washington reporter for the Wall Street Journal,[8][9] a staff writer at The New Republic and a congressional correspondent for Newsweek. Prior to rejoining the New Republic after a 29-year hiatus, Noah was for 12 years a senior writer at Slate.

In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States, the subject of a ten-part series[10] that he published in Slate in September 2010. The series won the 2011 Hillman Prize in the magazine category.[11] Writing on Page One of the New York Times Book Review, the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman called the book "as fair and comprehensive a summary as we are likely to get of what economists have learned about our growing inequality." The book also won praise from Nicholas Lemann in the New Yorker, Andrew Hacker in the New York Review of Books, and William Julius Wilson in the Nation.

On March 22, 2013, Noah announced that he'd been fired by The New Republic over Twitter[12]. He didn't give an indication as to why.

Iraq War

In a February 2003 article in Slate,[13] Noah described his initial opposition to the Iraq War and his conversion to the pro-war position by Colin Powell's February 3 speech to the United Nations. After many of Powell's statements were proven false, Noah changed his mind again about the war, praising those who had remained steadfastly against it in an August 2004 column.[14] After that, he became an outspoken critic of the media's ongoing tendency to grant credibility to war boosters, while discounting the views of those who opposed the war from the start.[15]

Personal life

Noah's late wife, fellow journalist Marjorie Williams, died of cancer in 2005. After her death, Noah edited an anthology of Williams' writing, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate.[16] The book won PEN's Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and a National Magazine Award in the category of essays and criticism. A second Williams anthology, Reputation: Portraits in Power was published in October 2008. Noah has two teenage children.

Noah's nephew is Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.[17]

Selected appearances on CBS News's Sunday Morning

"Ban the Benjamins!," April 3, 2011
"The Great Divergence" October 24, 2010
"Why the Filibuster Deserves No Respect," March 14, 2010
"Celebrity Commencements," May 24, 2009
"Let Us Now 'Change' The Campaign Rhetoric," Sept. 7, 2008

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Marjorie Williams Marries". The New York Times. 1990-08-12. Retrieved 2010-12-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "On Media: Jonathan Chait to New York; Timothy Noah to New Republic, Politico, September 6, 2011.
  3. ^ Richard Just, "Home News: TNR Hires Timothy Noah," The New Republic, September 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Michael Calderone, The New Republic Fires Timothy Noah, The Huffington Post, March 22, 2013
  5. ^ Marriage Announcement 1 -- No Title
  6. ^ Noah, Timothy (2008-08-13). "Mary Matalin, Publisher: When political hacks edit books". Slate.com. Retrieved 2010-12-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Jack Shafer (Sept. 17, 2009). "Murder Draped in Ivy". Slate. Retrieved 2010-09-08. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Timothy Noah bio". The Washington Monthly. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
  9. ^ "Staff: Who We Are". Slate. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
  10. ^ "The Great Divergence"
  11. ^ http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/Sidney_Hillman_Foundation_Announces_2011_Prizes
  12. ^ https://twitter.com/TimothyNoah1/status/315178818254024704
  13. ^ Timothy Noah (February 10, 2003). "Chatterbox Goes to War". Slate.
  14. ^ Timothy Noah, Can You Forgive Them?, Slate, August 20, 2004
  15. ^ Timothy Noah, How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? Wrong Question.
  16. ^ Meghan O'Rourke (November 9, 2005). "Marjorie Williams: A journalist who made feminism matter". Slate.
  17. ^ Timothy Noah (January 20, 2009). "Inaugorophobia, Part 2". Slate. Retrieved 2010-09-08. My rock-star nephew Adam Levine and my sister Patsy, both visiting from Los Angeles, did not.

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