Jeff Jacoby (columnist)
| Jeff Jacoby | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 10, 1959 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Alma mater |
George Washington University (B.A.) Boston University School of Law (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Op-cd columnist, Syndicated; former attorney |
Jeff Jacoby (born February 10, 1959) is a politically conservative American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States to a Jewish family, Jacoby received a B.A. degree with honors from The George Washington University and a J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law. His father, a Holocaust survivor, was born in present-day Slovakia in 1925 and came to the United States in 1948.
Before becoming a columnist, Jacoby worked briefly as an attorney with the firm BakerHostetler, and as deputy manager of Raymond Shamie's senatorial campaign in 1984. Following Shamie's loss, Jacoby worked for 15 months as an assistant to John Silber, then-president of Boston University. Jacoby is a member of the board of the Ford Hall Forum, the nation's oldest free public-lecture series.
Jacoby's column has been published on the op-ed page of the Boston Globe since 1994. From 1987 to 1994, he was chief editorial writer for the Boston Herald. Within months of his debut at the Globe, he was described by the left-leaning Boston Phoenix as "the region's pre-eminent spokesman for Conservative Nation," and a columnist who had "quickly established himself as a must-read." Jacoby has also been a commentator on the local NPR affiliate, WBUR, and for several years hosted a talk show on local television. He is also a public speaker who lectures nationwide.
In 2000, Jacoby was suspended by the Globe for four months without pay for what the paper called his "serious journalistic misconduct" in failing to provide sources for a Fourth of July column on the fate of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Although the themes and ideas in the column had already appeared in other media outlets, Jacoby neglected to mention that the column's content was not original. The Globe "avoided calling the column a work of plagiarism." On CNN's Reliable Sources, veteran journalists Bernard Kalb and Howard Kurtz concluded that "Jeff Jacoby got shafted by the Boston Globe." Time magazine's Lance Morrow wrote that "Jacoby's offense was no offense." Many conservative organizations and commentators expressed outrage, saying that Jacoby had been unfairly held to a far stricter standard than other journalists would be.The Boston Phoenix, often at odds with Jacoby's views, also rose to Jacoby's defense.
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