Jonathan Foreman (journalist)

Jonathan Foreman (born 1965) is an Anglo-American journalist and film critic.

He is the son of Academy-Award winning screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914–1984), who moved to England in order to work after being blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio bosses during the hysteria of the McCarthy era. He is the elder brother of the best-selling biographer Amanda Foreman.

Foreman was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School before reading Modern History at Cambridge University. After working as an editorial assistant for the International Herald Tribune, Foreman received his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a member of the New York Bar in 1991 and worked for the Manhattan firm, Shearman and Sterling. After several years at the bar, he described his decision to leave the law in a widely cited critique of New York City company culture, for the magazine City Journal.

Foreman then traveled widely in Asia, winning the South Asian Journalists Association first prize for reporting in 1997 for the City Journal piece, "Bombay on the Hudson". He won another prize from the same group in 2009 for his article in the National Review, "The Real Bhutto: Against the Mythmaking". On his return to New York, Foreman wrote another article for City Journal that was cited by then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the inspiration for the "quality of life" law enforcement efforts enacted in his second term in office.

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