Jonathan Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize winning Reporter and Editor
Mr. Kaufman is Education Editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing a team of reporters and editors covering higher education and K-12.
Prior to joining Bloomberg News, Mr. Kaufman was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal where he served as deputy Page One editor and helped oversee coverage of the 2008 campaign as well as writing stories about the election for Page One . He served as China Bureau Chief for the Journal, based in Beijing, and covered race and class issues in the workplace and on college campuses as senior special writer. At the Boston Globe, Mr. Kaufman was Berlin Bureau Chief and as a reporter won the Pulitzer Prize for his work with a team of reporters on a series examining racism and job discrimination in Boston and five other cities.
At Bloomberg News, Mr. Kaufman oversaw and edited the series "Education Inc." which exposed the abuses of for-profit colleges. The series won the Gerald Loeb award, the George Polk Award, the Education Writers Association Grand Prize, the National Headliners Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Mr. Kaufman also oversaw and edited an investigation of Harvard's disastrous investment dceisions which cost the university $1 billion. The coverage won a New York Press Club award.
Mr. Kaufman is the author of two books, "A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe" and "Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America" which won the National Jewish Book Award.
He can be reached at jonathankaufman617@gmail.com
Prior to joining Bloomberg News, Mr. Kaufman was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal where he served as deputy Page One editor and helped oversee coverage of the 2008 campaign as well as writing stories about the election for Page One . He served as China Bureau Chief for the Journal, based in Beijing, and covered race and class issues in the workplace and on college campuses as senior special writer. At the Boston Globe, Mr. Kaufman was Berlin Bureau Chief and as a reporter won the Pulitzer Prize for his work with a team of reporters on a series examining racism and job discrimination in Boston and five other cities.
At Bloomberg News, Mr. Kaufman oversaw and edited the series "Education Inc." which exposed the abuses of for-profit colleges. The series won the Gerald Loeb award, the George Polk Award, the Education Writers Association Grand Prize, the National Headliners Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Mr. Kaufman also oversaw and edited an investigation of Harvard's disastrous investment dceisions which cost the university $1 billion. The coverage won a New York Press Club award.
Mr. Kaufman is the author of two books, "A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe" and "Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America" which won the National Jewish Book Award.
He can be reached at jonathankaufman617@gmail.com
