Scott Hanford Stossel (born August 7, 1969) is an American

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

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. He is the national editor of ''

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''. Retrieved January 19, 2011. and previously served as executive editor of ''

The American Prospect ''The American Prospect'' is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and Progressivism in the United States, progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., ''The America ...

'' magazine.

Life

He is a graduate of

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He is the son of Anne Hanford and Thomas P. Stossel, the brother of cartoonist Sage Stossel, and the nephew of TV journalist

John Stossel John Frank Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American libertarian television presenter, author, consumer journalist, political activist, and pundit. He is known for his career as a host on ABC News, Fox Business Network, and Reason TV. Stos ...

. In 2014, Stossel was awarded the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. Stossel has advocated for approaches to help

anxiety Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner wikt:turmoil, turmoil and includes feelings of dread over Anticipation, anticipated events. Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response ...

Bibliography

* Stossel wrote and published an article ''My Anxious, Twitchy, Phobic (Somehow Successful) Life'' in the Atlantic magazine (January/February 2014)Surviving Anxiety
The Atlantic, January/February 2014 print and online which describes his lifelong struggles with debilitating anxiety. This article was adapted from his new book, *''My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind'' January, 2014, Knopf (). * ''Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver'', ()

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* * 1969 births Living people American biographers American magazine editors American male biographers American male journalists American people of German-Jewish descent Jewish American journalists Harvard University alumni The Atlantic (magazine) people 21st-century American Jews {{US-editor-stub