Victor Navasky, the longtime boss of The Nation, is now bringing his radical politics to the Columbia Journalism Review (he is the dean of Columbia’s graduate school of journalism). I had to giggle at the funny denials in this account from Editor and Publisher:
As for whether having the longtime editor of a magazine with a famously political (liberal) bent involved in the administration of CJR, [Editor Mike] Hoyt said appearances might not match with reality. “It could give somebody an opportunity to make a connection, but the connection is not there,” Hoyt said. “He doesn’t push anything editorially.”