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Andrew Purvis
Andrew Purvis is a journalist. In 2010 he became a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford, John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University. He is a former bureau chief for Time (magazine), ''Time'' magazine's Berlin bureau. He was working for ''Time'' as early as 1991. Purvis has also written for the ''Smithsonian (magazine), Smithsonian'' magazine. Personal Purvis was born and raised in Montreal. Career He began his career in journalism in 1983 as a city reporter for the ''Western News'' in Vancouver, British Columbia. Four years later he joined the ''Vancouver Sun'' where he was responsible for reporting on science. In 1989 he began working as a medical reporter for ''Time'' magazine. In 1992 he became the Africa bureau chief and later served bureau chief in Canada, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Turkey and Germany. Education He received his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and his master's degree from Columbia University School of Journalism. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithsonian (magazine)
''Smithsonian'' is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970. History The history of ''Smithsonian'' began when Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of ''Life'' magazine, was asked by the then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian nstitutionis interested, might be interested or ought to be interested." Thompson would later recall that his philosophy for the new magazine was that it "would stir curiosity in already receptive minds. It would deal with history as it is relevant to the present. It would present art, since true art is never dated, in the richest possible reproduction. It would peer into the future via coverage of social progress and of science and technology. Technical matters would be digested and made intelligible by skilled writers who would stimulate readers to reach upward while not turning them off with jargon. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |