The international career of journalist and editor Joel Dreyfuss spans five decades. He currently divides his time between New York and Paris, where he is working on a book about his family’s 300-year relationship with Haiti. Before moving to France, he was managing editor of TheRoot.com, a news website then owned by the Washington Post company. He has been editor-in-chief of technology magazines Red Herring and Information Week, editor of PC Magazine, executive editor of Black Enterprise, and editor-in-chief of Urban Box Office, an Internet startup.
He served two stints at Fortune, first as an associate editor and Tokyo bureau chief, and later as a senior editor and personal technology columnist and as a senior writer at Bloomberg Markets magazine, He also worked twice at the Washington Post: during the Watergate era he wrote for the newspaper’s Style section and more recently as a Global Opinions contributing columnist. Earlier, he worked at the Associated Press, the New York Post, and USA Today. He has been a news producer at KPIX in San Francisco and did on-air reports for KQED’s Newsroom and WNET’s 51st State. He has written an award-winning animated children’s film, Simon’s New Song (Nguzo Saba Productions).
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