James R. Gaines, Date of Birth

    

James R. Gaines

American journalist

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1947

Profession: historian, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About James R. Gaines

  • James R.
  • Gaines (born August 11, 1947) is a journalist and historian, the author of several books and the former managing editor of Time, Life, and People magazines.
  • Between 2011 and 2015 was at Reuters in various capacities: as global editor-at-large, as editor in charge of the Americas, as editor in charge of global photography and as global editor for ethics and standards.
  • He spent most of his career at Time Inc., where he began as a writer at People magazine and left twenty years later as corporate editor of Time Inc..
  • Between Time Inc.
  • and Reuters, he was a consultant on magazine startups, acquisitions and digital initiatives for publishers including Conde Nast International and American Express Publishing.
  • In 2007 he became the editor-in-chief of FLYP, a biweekly multimedia publication online that produced interactive material for the web sites of Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Scientific American and ProPublica.
  • He also served as managing editor of The Daily, News Corp’s “newspaper” for tablets.He is the author of For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions (W.
  • W.
  • Norton, 2007); Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (HarperCollins, 2005); and Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977).Gaines began his career at Saturday Review, before moving on to Newsweek, where he was a National Affairs writer. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Overseas Press Club, and the Online News Association.

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