Ellis Cose




Former chairman of the editorial board and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News, Cose is currently an essayist and contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. At age 19, Cose began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, the youngest editorial page columnist ever employed by a major Chicago daily. In addition to serving as a columnist, Cose worked as an editor and national correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times as a contributor and as a press critic for Time magazine. He has served as president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Journalism Education, chief writer on management and workplace issues for USA Today and a member of the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press. He also has been a fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, and a senior fellow and director of energy policy studies at the Washington-based Joint Center for Political Studies.

Cose has written several books including "A Nation of Strangers," a history of American immigration (1992); "The Rage of a Privileged Class," an examination of race in America (1994); and "Color-Blind: Seeing beyond Race in a Race-obsessed World" (1997). His most recent publication, "The Best Defense" (1998) is his first fictional work. This novel is a legal thriller about a killer motivated by affirmative action.

Cose has received fellowships or individual grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, as well as numerous journalism awards. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois (Chicago) and a master's degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University.





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