Ellis Cose was a longtime columnist and contributing editor for
Newsweek magazine, the former chairman of the editorial board of the New York
Daily News, and is the creator and director of Renewing American Democracy, an initiative of the University of Southern California, Northwestern, and Long Island University. He began his journalism career as a weekly columnist for the
Chicago Sun-Times and has been a contributor and press critic for
Time magazine, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Journalism Education, and columnist and chief writer on management and workplace issues for
USA Today. Cose has appeared on the
Today show,
Nightline, Dateline, ABC World News, Good Morning America, and a variety of other nationally televised and local programs. He has received fellowships or individual grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California, among others, and has won numerous journalism awards. Cose is the author of
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America, Bone to Pick, The Envy of the World, the bestselling
The Rage of a Privileged Class, and several other books.
