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Victor S. Navasky

Victor S. Navasky

Victor S. Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation, was the magazine's editor from 1978 to 1995 and publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. He is currently the Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. Before coming to The Nation, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business ("In Cold Print") for The New York Times Book Review.

Navasky has also served as a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities and has contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion.

He is author of Naming Names, which won the National Book Award in 1982, and Kennedy Justice. He lives in New York City.