Jonathan Alter
Journalist, Organization leader
1957 –
Who is Jonathan Alter?
Jonathan Alter is an American journalist, best-selling author and television producer who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011, and has written three New York Times best-selling books about American presidents. He is a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Alter was one of the first magazine or newspaper reporters to appear on MSNBC. When the shows were on the air, he could often be heard on Imus in the Morning and The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio. Alter is currently an executive producer on the Amazon Studio's production Alpha House, which stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy.
Alter is the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, a national bestseller published by Simon & Schuster in 2006, and Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People and Culture, a collection of twenty years' worth of his columns published by Borders Books. His 2010 book is The Promise: President Obama, Year One, published by Simon & Schuster, a behind-the-scenes look at Obama's eventful debut.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1957
Chicago - Spouses
- Emily Lazar
(1986/10/18 - )
- Emily Lazar
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Phillips Academy
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on July 23, 2013
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