Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald (born August 16, 1970)[1] is an American journalist and author; and a senior national correspondent at Time magazine.[2] He worked as a journalist for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe and is the author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2007) and The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (2012)
Life and career
Grunwald graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in 1992.[1]
Grunwald has held positions at The Washington Post and The Boston Globe before his current position at Time magazine. He has received several awards for journalism including the George Polk Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the Society of Environmental Journalists award, and the David Brower Award from the Sierra Club.[1][2]
He wrote The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2007)[3][4][5] after doing a four-part series for the Washington Post in 2002. The book discusses the history of attempts to tame the Everglades and recent work and plans to restore it.
His next book was The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era (2012), about the Obama administration and its response to the world financial crisis of 2007–2008.[2] In that book, he describes the discussions and debates that led to the government's anti-recession measures such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Taking a positive review of the President's efforts, Grunwald defends the economic measures as full of important, long-term investments while charging Republican Party opponents as being hypocritical and self-serving.[6]
Raised in Greenvale, New York, Grunwald resides in South Beach with his wife Cristina Dominguez, a lawyer, and their two children.[7]
Twitter controversy
In 2011, Grunwald posted a message on the Twitter website that he did not care that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was killed in a drone strike by the US government, in 2011.[8] In August 2013, his Twitter message, "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange", a criticism of the Wikileaks founder, caused widespread outrage.[9][10] Grunwald later tweeted his regrets: "It was a dumb tweet. I'm sorry. I deserve the backlash."[11]
References
- ^ a b c "Michael Grunwald." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Biography In Context. Web. 22 Aug. 2013.
- ^ a b c "Michael Grunwald", Time. Accessed 19 August 2013. Archived 19 August 2013.
- ^ "The Swamp". New York Times Book Review. April 9, 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ^ "'The Swamp' of Florida Politics (Fresh Air)". NPR. March 23, 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ^ Bret Schulte (March 5, 2006). "Trouble in the Swamplands". US News and World Report. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ^ "The big promise", The Economist, 18 August 2012. Accessed 19 August 2013. Archived 19 August 2013.
- ^ "About The Author", michaelgrunwald.com. Accessed 19 August 2013. Archived 19 August 2013.
- ^ Goyette, Braden. "Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine Reporter, Sends Out Shocking Tweet About Julian Assange", Huffington Post. Accessed 19 August 2013.
- ^ "Grunwald's Repugnant Assange Tweet", Conor Friedersdorf, August 19, 2013, The Atlantic
- ^ "Michael Grunwald and the Assange Precedent Problem", August 18, 2013, Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
- ^ "TIME’s Michael Grunwald hopes Julian Assange is taken out by a drone strike", The Daily Caller, August 18, 2013
Further reading
- Westcott, Kathryn. "Healing Florida's 'River of Grass'", BBC News, 25 June 2008. Accessed 19 August 2013.