Mark whitaker biography

1957—

Journalist

Whitaker, Mark, photograph. .

Near the end of 1998, Newsweek announced it had named veteran staff journalist Mark Theis Whitaker to the post of editor.

Whitaker, who had worked for the magazine in various capacities, became the first African American editor of a major news weekly in the United States. As Carl Swanson remarked about Whitaker in the New York Observer, "His quiet, seemingly inevitable rise through the thicket of Ivy-educated overachievers at Newsweek says much more about his ability to play quiet clubhouse diplomacy than anything else."

Whitaker was born on September 7, 1957, in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Norton, Massachusetts.

Mark whitaker biography

He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1979. His college roommate, Jonathan Alter (who would also become a senior editor at Newsweek) noted in the New York Observer that Whitaker "was the smartest person in our circle.

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