Jack Newfield
| Jack Abraham Newfield | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 18, 1938 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Died | December 21, 2004 (aged 66) New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hunter College, BA (1960) |
| Notable awards | George Polk Award (1979), Emmy Award (1992), American Book Award (2002) |
Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was an American muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine, Tikkun, Mother Jones, and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. Newfield believed that "the facts" should be contextualized within larger understandings. In his autobiography, "Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist" (2002), Newfield stated, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth." A career beat reporter, Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music. He authored numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority (1966) and Robert Kennedy : A Memoir. His received the American Book Award for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania about New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Newfield was a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker.
Newfield was born and grew up in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, raised by his mother, Ethel (Tuchman) Newfield. When he was four years old, his father, Phillip Newfield, died of a heart attack. An only child, Newfield was a latchkey kid. The ethos of his upbringing led him to establish a professional approach he identified as "advocacy journalism."
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