Andrew Jacobs is an American correspondent for ''
The New York Times
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''.
Jacobs has been based in Beijing, China, since April 2008, covering the country for ''The New York Times''. He is also the director and producer of a 2008 documentary, ''Four Seasons Lodge''.
Early life
Jacobs, who is Jewish and one of three children, was born in
Newark, New Jersey
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, to Martin G. Jacobs, a
nephrologist
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, and Barbara Jacobs.
["Four Seasons Lodge; A documentary film by Andrew Jacobs"]
First Run Features His sisters are Wendy, a county commissioner in
Durham, North Carolina
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, and Ellen, a psychotherapist in Manhattan, New York City.
[ He grew up in ]South Orange, New Jersey
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.[Haley Sweetland Edwards (March 27, 2009)]
"A Homegrown Director who had to tell this Story"
, ''The New York Times'' He graduated from Columbia High School Columbia High School may refer to:
*Columbia High School (Huntsville, Alabama)
*Columbia High School (Georgia)
*Columbia High School (Florida)
*Columbia High School (Idaho)
*Columbia High School (Illinois)
*Columbia High School (Mississippi), a Mis ...
, and from New York University
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, where he studied architecture and urban design
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.
In 1989, Jacobs was an English teacher at Hubei University in Wuhan
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, China. He served as press secretary
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Dutie ...
for Tom Duane during his successful run for the New York City Council
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The council serves as a check against the mayor in a mayor-council government mod ...
in 1991.[
]
Journalism career
Jacobs contributed to the Associated Press
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Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are dist ...
, ''Village Voice
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'', and ''New York Newsday
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'' during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
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.[ Later, he served as editor of ''Manhattan Spirit'' and ''Our Town'', founded and was news editor of ''QW'' magazine, and edited a number of New York City newsweeklies, including ''The Brooklyn Phoenix'' and '' The Villager''.][
He began writing for '']The New York Times
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'' in 1995.[ He has reported for various ''New York Times'' desks, including National, Business, Culture, and Styles.][ In April 2008, he served as a New York Times correspondent in Beijing, China.] His writing focuses on Chinese politics
In the People's Republic of China, politics functions within a socialist state framework based on the system of people's congress under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with the National People's Congress (NPC) functionin ...
, including Uighur-Han Chinese
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relations, Chen Guangcheng's escape, and the loss of power of Bo Xilai
Bo Xilai ( zh, s=薄熙来, p=Bó Xīlái; born 3 July 1949) is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then the governor of Liaoning. ...
.[ and returned to the US in 2016. He now covers international health issues for the organization.
]
Awards
In 2002, he was part of a team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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for coverage of the September 11 attacks
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in Manhattan.[ In 2009, Jacobs was part of a team of reporters that won the ]Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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related to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
In 2009, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) acknowledged his coverage of the government's crackdown on dissent during the Beijing Olympics entitled "In the Shadow of the Olympics" with an honorable mention in the category Excellence in Human Rights Reporting.[ In 2010, SOPA acknowledged him and several other ''New York Times'' writers with the Award for Excellence in the category Excellence in Feature Writing for ''Uneasy Engagement'', a 10-part series that explored China's growing influence in the world.] In 2011, he and a group of ''New York Times'' reporters were finalists for a Gerald Loeb Award
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, for their reporting on Google's clash with the Chinese government over censorship issues.[
]
Film career
Jacobs directed and produced ''Four Seasons Lodge'', a feature-length
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2008 documentary shot two years prior.[Ella Taylor (November 10, 2009)]
"In the Catskills, Holocaust Survivors Forge a Bond"
''The New York Times''. It is about a group of elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor
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s spending the summer at a vacation bungalow
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colony in Ellenville in the Catskills
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in upstate New York
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prior to the property being sold.[ The documentary is based on material he wrote for a series in the ''New York Times'' "Metro" section.][Andrew Jacobs (September 8, 2005)]
"Where 80 Is Young, All Friends Are Old Friends"
''The New York Times''.
Rather than interviewing the participants, Jacobs filmed them interacting with one another. Academy Award-nominated Albert Maysles was one of four cinematographers who worked on the film.[ They shot 250 hours of film to create the 97-minute documentary.][
The film opened at the ]Hamptons International Film Festival
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in October 2008.[ It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.][
]
References
External links
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"Recent and archived news articles by Andrew Jacobs"
''The New York Times''
"The Hard Part: A Series; Articles in this series chronicle; Mayor Cory A. Booker's tenure in Newark's City Hall"
''The New York Times''
"Articles in the Uneasy Engagement series from The New York Times examined the stresses and strains of China's emergence as a global power"
''The New York Times''
''Four Seasons Lodge'' documentary web site
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Living people
American male journalists
American male non-fiction writers
Journalists from New Jersey
The New York Times journalists
Jewish American journalists
Jewish American non-fiction writers
Writers from Newark, New Jersey
Writers from South Orange, New Jersey
Columbia High School (New Jersey) alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
New York University alumni
American documentary film directors
American documentary film producers
Film directors from New Jersey
Film producers from New Jersey
21st-century American Jews