New York Times Columnist David Brooks will visit Yale University on Tuesday, March 29th as the next Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
David Brooks’ discussion of “The Future of American Politics,” will take place at 4:30 P.M. in Linsly–Chittenden Hall, Room 211, 63 High St. Brooks’ Poynter Lecture, which is co–sponsored by International Security Studies at Yale, is free and open to the public.
David Brooks’ column on the Op–Ed page of The New York Times began in September 2003. Previously, he had been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly. He is currently a commentator on “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.” He is the author of “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense,” both published by Simon & Schuster.
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op–ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal’s movie critic.
Mr. Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983, and worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times. “All Things Considered” and the “Diane Rehm Show.” His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the TLS, Commentary, The Public Interest and many other magazines. He is editor of the anthology “Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing” (Vintage Books).
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale was established by Nelson Poynter, who received his master’s degree in 1927 from Yale. The fellowship brings to campus journalists who have made significant contributions to their field. Recent Poynter fellows include Tom Friedman, Paul Goldberger, Jeff Greenfield, Margaret Warner, Michael Wilbon and Judy Woodruff.
