Jonathan Power is British, born in North Mimms and grew up in Oldham and Liverpool. He is a journalist, filmmaker and writer who is best known for his weekly column on foreign affairs that ran in the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times) for 17 years[1].
Background
editApart from his weekly column on foreign affairs written for the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times), for seventeen years his longer articles regularly appeared in Encounter and Prospect. His Encounter article, "The New Proletariat" (September, 1974) was a typical one.[2].His interviews of leading political figures from every continent have been printed all over the world including the ones with George Arbatov, President Brezhnev’s chief American watcher and later President Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor and Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor [3] [4]. One of his latest was with his old school friend, Paul McCartney, talking about foreign policy issues[5][6]. Paul McCartney wrote an introduction to Jonathan's book "Like Water on Stone- The Story of Amnesty International" (Penguin, 2002) [7].
Education
editHe was a pupil at the Liverpool Institute High School. He did his bachelors degree at the University of Manchester and masters in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Career
editBefore his masters he worked advising peasant farmers in Tanzania, living in an African village. After his masters he worked on the staff of Martin Luther King in the slums of Chicago. Later, he became a journalist but continued his community work in a Dickensian London neighbourhood.
He began his journalistic career in 1968 with a one hour documentary talk, "Black Power", on the BBC Third Program[8]. He made a number of subsequent documentaries for Radio 3 and 4. Over the years he has written columns for the New York Times, (where he was a guest columnist), [9] the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times[10] and contributed many articles to the Times of London[11].
References
edit- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22jonathan+power%22&srchst=p&d=&o=&v=&c=&sort=oldest&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&year1=1851&mon1=09&day1=18&year2=1980&mon2=12&day2=31&
- ^ Encounter, September, 1974
- ^ Washington Post, December 30th, 1979.
- ^ http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=271#.Veh6uGSqqko
- ^ Prospect Magazine, London, January, 2009.
- ^ http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/powers-world-the-mccartney-interview
- ^ http://www.oldsite.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/power/2001/PowerMcCartney.html
- ^ The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-80, Gavin Schaffer
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22jonathan+power%22&srchst=p&d=&o=&v=&c=&sort=oldest&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&year1=1851&mon1=09&day1=18&year2=1980&mon2=12&day2=31&
- ^ Amnesty International, the Human Rights Story, Jonathan Power, 1981
- ^ The Times, London, June 11, 1974.