Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation since 1978, became its publisher and editorial director in January 1995. In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence, he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University.

Before coming to The Nation he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for the Times Book Review.

Navasky has also served as a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities and has contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion. He is a graduate of Yale Law School (1959) and Swarthmore College (1954), where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in the social sciences. He was born in New York in 1932.

In addition to his Nation responsibilities, Navasky is also Director of the George Delacorte Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia University and a regular commentator on the public radio program Marketplace.

Mr. Navasky, who has three children, lives in New York City with his wife, Anne. He serves on the boards of the Authors Guild , PEN and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Books by Victor Navasky

• Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, 1977)
• Naming Names (Viking, 1980)
• The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (with Christopher Cerf )
• A Matter of Opinion (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2005) (ISBN 0374299978)