Fred Hiatt
Fred Hiatt | |
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Born | Frederick Samuel Hiatt April 30, 1955 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Died | December 6, 2021 New York City, U.S. | (aged 66)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1977–2021 |
Known for | Editorial page editor, The Washington Post (1999–2021) |
Spouse |
Margaret Shapiro (m. 1984) |
Children | 3 |
Parents |
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Frederick Samuel Hiatt (April 30, 1955 – December 6, 2021) was an American journalist. He was the
Early and personal life
Hiatt was born in Washington, D.C.,
Many relatives of his paternal grandfather were killed during
Death
Hiatt had a history of heart disease.[5] On November 24, 2021, he was hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest in New York City, where he was visiting his daughter. He never regained consciousness and died on December 6, at the age of 66.[13][14]
Career
Reporter
Hiatt first reported for
Editorial page editor
In 1996, Hiatt joined The Post's editorial board. In 1999 Hiatt was a finalist for the
The Post's editorial board prior to Hiatt's appointment was described by then-editor Meg Greenfield as collectively having "the sensibility of 1950s liberals," by which she meant that it was generally conservative on foreign policy and national defense and generally liberal on social issues.[16]
Under Hiatt's editorship, the Post added many new columnists of varying ideologies, including
During this time The Post also assumed traditionally conservative positions on several major issues: economically, it defended a Republican initiative to allow
Several media commentators expressed the view that The Post's editorial position under Hiatt moved towards a
The former op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, now a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, placed Hiatt fifth in his list of "The Left's Top 25 Journalists" for The Daily Beast[28] and third in the similar list he coauthored for Forbes magazine.[29] Matthew Cooper, White House editor of National Journal magazine, writes that Hiatt "is a bete noir for many liberals because of, among other things, the paper's support of the Iraq War."[30]
The National Journal reported in November 2014, that Hiatt had offered his resignation to Jeff Bezos, the new owner of The Post, but had been retained.[30]
An editorial Hiatt edited on the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot was part of the package that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.[2] He died before he could receive the honor.
Speaker and moderator
Hiatt was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[31] a foreign-policy think tank, and presided over events hosted by the organization.
In December 2009, Hiatt was a featured speaker at the Tokyo Foundation conference entitled "Japan after the Change: Perspectives of Western Opinion Leaders".[32] In October 2010, he moderated a panel on US-Russia relations at the Center for American Progress, a progressive public policy think tank. In 2011, he was a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival,[33] and a moderator of the "Asianomics" session of the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea.[34]
Novelist
Hiatt wrote The Secret Sun: A Novel of Japan, which was published in 1992, as well as two books for children, If I Were Queen of the World (1997)[35] and Baby Talk (1999).[1] In April 2013, his first novel for young adult audiences, Nine Days, was published. It follows two fictional teenagers on a journey to free an imprisoned Chinese dissident; while the protagonists are fictional, the prisoner and his story are based in reality.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Biography: Fred Hiatt". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
- ^ DeJohn, Kristin (Fall 2008). "Bridging the healthcare divide: Dr. Howard Hiatt's lifelong mission to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare" (PDF). Brigham and Women's Hospital Profiles in Medicine. Retrieved December 11, 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Marquard, Bryan (October 5, 2007). "Doris Hiatt, at 83; saw the value of paperbacks for teens". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ a b c Seelye, Katharine Q. (December 6, 2021). "Fred Hiatt, Washington Post Editorial Page Editor, Dies at 66". The New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ Howard, Hiatt. "Family peregrination ends in the USA". Web of Stories. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ a b "Walter Bieringer, 90; Helped War Refugees". The New York Times. June 20, 1990.
- ^ "Bieringer Named Head of Massachusetts Commission on Refugees". Jewish Telegraph Agency. August 15, 1957. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ Hiatt, Fred. "Fred Hiatt". thecrimson.com. Harvard Crimson. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- ^ Handy, Bruce (June 1988). "When Bad Things Happen to Ambitious People". Spy Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
- ^ "Myron J. Shapiro 1921-2014". The Star-Ledger. September 28, 2014.
- ^ ISBN 9780385742733.
- ^ "Fred Hiatt, Who Edited the Washington Post's Opinion Section, Has Died". Washingtonian. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ a b c Schudel, Matt (December 6, 2021). "Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ "1999 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes/Columbia University. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
- ^ Smith, J. Y. (May 14, 1999). "Post Editor, Newsweek Columnist Meg Greenfield Dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
- ^ "The 60-second interview: Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor, The Washington Post". POLITICO Media.
- ^ Will, George F. (February 15, 2009). "Dark Green Doomsayers". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ Otto, Dylan. "Steve Mufson latest Post employee to distance self from Hiatt/Will". Skepticism Examiner.
- ^ "WaPo Reporter Disses Editorial Page Over George Will". Energy Information Administration 2009 Energy Conference. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Brainard, Curtis (February 26, 2009). "The George Will Affair: Post stands by climate column despite widespread criticism; clamor spills over to The New York Times". The Columbia Journalism Review.
- ^ Moyers, Bill (April 25, 2007). "Buying the War". Bill Moyers' Journal, PBS. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
- ^ Horton, Scott (June 19, 2009). "WaPo Loses Its Top Web Columnist". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved December 13, 2009.
- ^ Foser, Jamison (February 19, 2010). "The myth of the "liberal" Washington Post opinion pages". Media Matters for America. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
- ^ "'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for March 23 - Hardball with Chris Matthews". NBC News. March 26, 2007. Retrieved April 4, 2009.
- ^ Sullivan, Andrew (June 2009). "The WaPo's Best Blogger Is Fired". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ Pinkerton, James P. (August 4, 2004). "The Washington Post's creeping hawkishness Once it challenged Nixon. Now the supposedly liberal paper is attacking Kerry for not fully embracing Bush's Iraq war". Salon.com. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ Herbert, Gerald (February 16, 2010). "The Left's Top 25 Journalists". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Tunku Varadarajan, Elisabeth Eaves and Hana R. Alberts. "In Depth: The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media". Forbes. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ a b Cooper, Matthew. "Behind the Jeff Bezos Curtain at The Washington Post". National Journal. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ^ "Transcript: Accountability vs. Impunity: The Role of the International Criminal Court". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on August 11, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
- ^ "Japan after the Change: Perspectives of Western Opinion Leaders". The Tokyo Foundation. December 22, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ^ "Aspen Ideas Festival: Fred Hiatt". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ "World Knowledge Forum". World Knowledge Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ Fred Hiatt (1997), If I Were Queen of the World, Margaret K. McElderry Books: "If I were queen of the whole wide world, I'd have one hundred lollipops a day and never have to share. But sometimes I'd let my little brother have a lick or two."
External links
- Fred Hiatt columns | The Washington Post
- Appearances on C-SPAN