Word: isaacson
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...planning what New Orleans should look like five years from now. The Louisiana Recovery Authority, appointed by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, met in November with hundreds of New Orleans residents to develop priorities, brainstorm ideas with planners and businessmen, and present a unified voice. The Authority vice chair Walter Isaacson petitioned Congress last week for help in establishing a "recovery corporation" as a vehicle for the city's rebuilding neighborhoods. Donald Powell, the new hurricane czar appointed by George W. Bush, said his job is to listen and gather facts to help the President "understand the vision of the local...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA: Walter Isaacson...
...Isaacson joined TIME in 1978 and rose quickly through its ranks, serving as a reporter, writer and editor before becoming an assistant managing editor in 1991. He oversaw several TIME covers on computing and the emergence of the digital age, and in 1993 he headed a team that created TIME Online. Later that year Isaacson became Time Inc.'s editor of new media, a position he held until assuming his present post a year ago. Along the way he also found time to write Kissinger, the definitive study of the former Secretary of State, and, before that, to co-write...
...thought that TIME, committed to authoritative reporting, synthesis and analysis, and to telling stories through people, seemed uniquely suited to getting the story behind the Gates myths, and that TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson seemed uniquely qualified to report and write the story...
...Isaacson writes that Gates possesses "an awesome and at times frightening blend of brilliance, drive, competitiveness and personal intensity." That is also a pretty apt description of Walter. Like Gates, Isaacson attended Harvard, where he studied computing while majoring in history and literature. Unlike Gates, he graduated (in 1974) and then went to Oxford for two years as a Rhodes scholar. While in England he worked at London's Sunday Times, before returning to his native New Orleans to work as a reporter at the New Orleans States-Item. While there he also bought his first personal computer, a Kaypro...