Oral history interviewee with Fareed Zakaria, 2008.

Biographical Note

Journalist.

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1964 in Mumbai, India; education: B.A., Yale University, Ph.D., Harvard University; college internships: Wall Street Journal, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic; career: managing editor Foreign Affairs (1992-2000), editor Newsweek International (2000-present); Foreign Affairs: low readership, restructuring of Foreign Affairs article format, addition of identifiable article thesis, inclusion of article summaries, reduction of article length, introduction of lead article, “Clash of Civilization” discussion, competition with National Interest, Ukrainian nuclear power discussion, increase in readership, discussion of various magazine contributors, personal, heavy-handed editing style, relationship with editor, policy papers versus academic writing; Council of Foreign Relations: experience as first, foreign citizen, discussion or Pakistani president versus Venezuelan president, various Council events, colleague reminiscences.

Subjects

• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Gavrilis, George, 1972- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Journalists--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Periodical editors--United States--Interviews.
• Zakaria, Fareed--Interviews.

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