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Jerry Adler (journalist)

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Jerry Adler is a former Senior Editor for Newsweek and Yahoo! News.[1] He writes for Smithsonian[2] and Scientific American magazines,[3] International Business Times,[4] The New Yorker, New York, Wired, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Daily Beast,[5] Esquire, and is the author of High Rise, about the building of a skyscraper, and co-author of The Price of Terror, about the struggle of families of Pan Am 103 victims to get justice after the Lockerbie bombing. In 2009 he originated Newsverse at Newsweek.com, a weekly satirical poem.[6] He appeared on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" to recite one of his poems in 2010.

His articles were twice finalists for National Magazine Awards and won a Sydney Hillman award.

Education

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He received his B.A. in American history from Yale University in 1970.[7]

Books

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  • The Price of Terror, Allan Gerson, Jerry Adler, Publisher: Harper (2001), ISBN 0060197617, ISBN 978-0060197612
  • High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, Jerry Adler, Harpercollins (1994), ISBN 006092456X, ISBN 978-0060924560

References

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  1. ^ "Jerry Adler". Newsweek.
  2. ^ "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places - Smithsonian". smithsonianmag.com.
  3. ^ "Stories by Jerry Adler - Scientific American". Scientific American - Stories by Jerry Adler.
  4. ^ "Jerry Adler". International Business Times.
  5. ^ "Jerry Adler - The Daily Beast". The Daily Beast.
  6. ^ "jerryadlersnewsverse".
  7. ^ "Jerry Adler, Senior editor". Edge.org. Retrieved 8 September 2018.