Charles Eisendrath
Charles Eisendrath | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 9, 1940 |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Time Magazine journalist, professor, and inventor |
| Known for | Time Magazine & C-Span Television |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Eisendrath |
Charles R. Eisendrath (born October 9, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist, professor and inventor.
He is most notable for being the director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan, and credited with turning it into one of American journalism’s most prestigious university programs. He is a long-time Time magazine correspondent.[1] He is also notable for his invention of the Grillworks, a wood-burning grill.[2]
Eisendrath is also an on-air contributor to C-SPAN television.[3]
He received national attention in 1973 when he was the onsite reporter for Time magazine in Santiago during the coup that overthrew the Marxist government of Salvador Allende, and securing the first ever post-coup interview with new dictator Augusto Pinochet.[4]
Career[]
After graduating in History at Yale, Eisendrath became a journalist, and reported for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Baltimore Evening Sun. Eisendrath then joined Time Magazine as a correspondent in Washington, London and Paris, eventually becoming bureau chief in Buenos Aires where he was responsible for all news operations in Hispanic South America.[5]
His work has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune and The Atlantic. He has been a guest on ABC’s Good Morning America and a commentator on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.”[6]
From 1975 to 2016 he was a professor at the University of Michigan where he founded Wallace House, which includes the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships, one of the nation's leading mid-career professional journalism programs, and The Livingston Awards, widely known as "the Pulitzer Prize for the Young," raising $60 million endowment to permanently sustain the Fellowships, and was founding director of the Prizes.[7]
Personal[]
He and his wife, Julia, live in Ann Arbor and East Jordan, Michigan, have two sons, Benjamin Cardozo E and Mark William E, and three grandsons.
Honors[]
- Chairman of the Development Committee of the Center for Public Integrity
- Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations
- Pulitzer Prize International Jury
- Chairman of the American Board of the International Press Institute
- Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame
- Selected for Who’s Who in America 1996
- Richard M. Clurman Award for Distinguished Mentoring in Journalism
- Tom Brokaw said “Charles Eisendrath has long been considered a reporter’s reporter”[8]
References[]
- ^ "Charles Eisendrath". Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "East Jordan's Charles Eisendrath". www.northernexpress.com. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "Charles R. Eisendrath | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ Eisendrath, Charles (1973-12-31). "CHILE: The Price of Order". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "Leader who dared journalists to dream steps down". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "Charles Eisendrath | Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame". mijournalismhalloffame.org. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ Eisendrath, Charles. "Former foreign correspondent shares stories of Michigan and the world in new memoir". www.michiganradio.org. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
- ^ "MPP GIFT BOOKS 2020". Mission Point Press. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- Living people
- The Baltimore Sun people
- Yale University alumni
- Journalists from Michigan
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch people
- University of Michigan faculty
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American journalists
- American male journalists
- Writers from Chicago
- Journalists from Illinois
- 1940 births