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James Fallows
American writer and journalist (born 1949)
James Mackenzie Fallows[1] (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist.[2] He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.[3][4]
Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China, and has held the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense (1981), for which he received the 1983 National Book Award,[5]Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009),[6]China Airborne (2012), and the national best-seller Our Towns (2018), which was co-written with his wife, Deborah Fallows, and made into an HBO documentary of the same name in 2021.
Biography
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Breaking the News
Breaking the News will be the home for regular posts, podcasts, photos, reader-mail, guest essays, and other dispatches from James Fallows—that’s me.
I am a long-time reporter and writer of books and magazine articles. At different times I’ve been a public radio commentator; once a White House speechwriter; and for two years a newsmagazine editor. In the 1990s, I was part of a software-design team at Microsoft; I’ve taught at a number of universities; and since the 1990s I’ve been an active instrument-rated private pilot. Recently I was part of an HBO filmmaking team and am co-founder of a new NGO.
I am originally from small-town southern California—Redlands, in San Bernardino County. With my wife, Deb, and our family I’ve spent more than a dozen years living and reporting from outside the United States, mainly in Japan, Malaysia, and China, plus England, Australia, Ghana, and other parts of Africa. Within the United States we’ve lived for extended periods in Texas, California, and Washington state. Those years of travel have led to a number of books and have profoundly shaped my view of my home country. Deb and I are now based in Washington D.C.
My magazine writing has been mainly for The Atlantic, which I joined as a staff member in the late