Jonathan Kaufman

Jonathan Kaufman (born April 18, 1956) is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author, and Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism and professor of Journalism.Kaufman was born in New York City, New York. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was an Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing more than 300 reporters and editors. Under his leadership, Kaufman's team at Bloomberg won numerous awards including a 2015 Pulitzer Prize, several George Polk Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, the Osborn Elliott Prize of the Asia Society, and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize.Prior to Bloomberg, Kaufman was a senior editor and Beijing Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal and a reporter and Berlin Bureau Chief at the Boston Globe where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series examining racism and job discrimination in Boston.Kaufman's specialties are the role of Jews in American politics and around the world; the challenges facing media in the 21st century and in the age of President Donald Trump; race relations and class in the United States; and Chinese politics, economy and relations with the United States.