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).

He is co-author (with Charles Lawrence III) of The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979). Many of his articles and essays have been included in anthologies, including The Butterfly's Way, an anthology of writers in the Haitian Diaspora edited by Edwidge Danticat.

Dreyfuss has won several journalism awards, including one from the Overseas Press Club. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Black Journalists, which he co-founded. He has received the highest alumni award, the Townsend Harris Medal, from his alma mater, the City College of the City University of New York and is also a member of the Hall of Fame of the Communications Alumni of the City College. He is an accomplished musician who has credits as a bassist on several albums.

A native of Haiti, Dreyfuss grew up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Paris, France; Monrovia, Liberia, and New York City. He has also lived in Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Tokyo. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at City College and was an Urban Journalism Fellow at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors, as a Pulitzer Prize juror and is a board member of The Haitian Roundtable in New York.