US News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report "came into existence through a journalistic merger. In 1933, journalist David Lawrence published the first issue of a weekly newspaper called the United States News. Six years later, he launched a magazine called World Report. When the two weeklies merged in 1948, U.S.News & World Report was born.

"From 1962 to 1984, U.S. News was employee-owned. In 1984, publisher and real estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman bought the company. Mr. Zuckerman is also chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News. He has substantial real estate holdings, including properties in Boston, New York, Washington, and San Francisco. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Zuckerman is a former associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he taught for nine years.

"In 1983, U.S. News began its annual rankings of American colleges and universities. The fall of 1987 marked the first publication of the newsstand book, America's Best Colleges. It was joined by America's Best Graduate Schools in 1994.

"U.S. News began its Internet ventures in 1993, with a two-year stint as a content provider to the CompuServe Information Service. U.S. News Online (www.usnews.com), the magazine's Web site, went online Nov. 6, 1995. All articles from the print edition of U.S. News also appear on U.S. News Online."


 * President - William D. Holiber

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 * Executive Committee Chairman and Editor-in-Chief - Mortimer B. Zuckerman
 * Editor Brian Kelly
 * Managing Editors Margaret Mannix, Tim Smart
 * Executive Director Karen S. Chevalier
 * Design Director Ken Newbaker
 * Assistant Managing Editors - Terry Atlas, World; Susan Headden, Nation; Anne McGrath, Health; James Pethokoukis, Business; Kenneth Terrell, Education
 * Director of Editorial Development - Diane Snow Javaid
 * Director of Information Services - Jill Konieczko
 * Director of Operations - Michael Piccorossi
 * Director of Photography - Scot Jahn
 * Director of Video and Audio Production - Matthew Belvedere
 * Art Director - Michele Chu
 * Health Editor - Bernadine Healy
 * Editor at Large - David Gergen


 * Deputies - James Bock, Business; Kimberly Castro, Business; Morgan E. Felchner, Politics; Ben Harder, Health; Stephanie Salmon, Information Services; Robert Schlesinger, Opinion; Alan Weinstein, Operations
 * Chief Correspondents - Rick Newman, Business; Kenneth T. Walsh, White House
 * Senior Writers - Michelle Andrews (New York), Michael Barone, Paul Bedard, Kim Clark, Avery Comarow, Liz Halloran, David LaGesse (St. Louis), Thomas Omestad, Nancy Shute, Katherine Skiba, Jay Tolson, Kevin Whitelaw
 * Senior Editors - Justin Ewers (San Francisco), Katherine Hobson (New York), Deborah Kotz, Anna Mulrine, Kimberly Palmer, Kirk Shinkle (New York)
 * Senior Producers - Sara Clarke, Elisabeth Goodridge
 * Associate Editors - Sarah Baldauf, Alex Kingsbury, Katy Marquardt, Luke Mullins, January W. Payne, Bret Schulte
 * Producers - Alison Go, Maura Judkis, Nikki Schwab
 * Special Correspondents - Eduardo Cue, France; Larry Derfner, Khalid Abu Toameh, Middle East
 * Reporters - Matthew Bandyk, Emily Brandon, Kent Garber, Lucia Graves, Lindsay Lyon, Eddy Ramírez, Matthew Shulman, Adam Voiland, Liz Wolgemuth
 * Contributing Editors - Fouad Ajami, Gloria Borger, Diane Cole, Harold Evans, Dan Gilgoff, Robert O. Grover, Kerry Hannon, Linda Kulman, Marty Nemko, Linda Robinson, Leonard Wiener

Contact

 * Web: http://www.usnews.com

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