Jack Newfield

Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was a muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary film maker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Mr. Newfield wrote for the The Village Voice, Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine,Tikkun (magazine), Mother Jones (magazine), and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. Mr. Newfield believed "the facts" should be contextualized within a larger understandings. In his autobiography, "Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist" (2002), Mr. Newfield stated, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth." A career beat reporter, Mr. Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music. He authored numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority (1966) and Robert Kennedy : A Memoir. His received the American Book Award for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania about New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Mr. Newfield was a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, and an Emmy-award winning documentary film maker.