Editing Nicholas Lemann (section)

==Life and career==
Lemann began his journalism career as a 17-year-old writer for an [[alternative weekly]], the ''Vieux Carre Courier'', in his home city of New Orleans. In 1975, amid reports of mass murder in Cambodia by the [[Khmer Rouge]], Lemann wrote, "I continue to support the Khmer Rouge in its principles and goals but I have to admit that I deplore the way they are going about it."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lemann|first1=Nick|title=Cambodia and Crimson Politics {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/9/1/cambodia-and-crimson-politics-pbobne-day/|work=www.thecrimson.com|language=en}}</ref> After graduation, he worked at the ''[[Washington Monthly]]'', as an associate editor and then managing editor; at ''[[Texas Monthly]]'', as an associate editor and then executive editor; at ''[[The Washington Post]]'', as a member of the national staff; at ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', as national correspondent; and at ''The New Yorker'', as staff writer and then Washington correspondent.

Lemann won the 1980 [[Raymond Clapper Memorial Award]] "...for a series of stories outlining the plight of a family on welfare."<ref name=AP-1980>{{cite news|author=UPI ARCHIVES|date=April 26, 1981|title=The White House Correspondents Association presented the annual Merriman...|work=[[United Press International]]|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/26/The-White-House-Correspondents-Association-presented-the-annual-Merriman/3587357109200/}}</ref>

On September 1, 2003, Lemann became dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.<ref name=Arenson>{{cite news|title=Columbia Names Dean for its Journalism School|author=Karen W. Arenson |author-link=Karen W. Arenson |newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 16, 2003|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40710F9355F0C758DDDAD0894DB404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fL%2fLemann%2c%20Nicholas}}</ref> During Lemann's time as dean, the Journalism School launched and completed its first capital fundraising campaign, added 20 members to its full-time faculty, built a student center, started its first new professional degree program since the 1930s, and launched initiatives in investigative reporting, digital journalism, executive leadership for news organizations, and other areas.<ref name=Profile>[http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/50 Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211012333/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/profile/50 |date=2013-12-11 }} at Columbia Journalism School.</ref> He stepped down as dean in 2013, following two five-year terms.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/lemann-to-step-down-as-dean-of-journalism-school-at-columbia/ | work=The New York Times | first=Christine | last=Haughney | title=Lemann to Step Down as Dean of Journalism School at Columbia | date=October 9, 2012}}</ref>

In 2015, Lemann launched ''[[Columbia Global Reports]]'', a university-funded publishing imprint that produces four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year, each on a different underreported story in the world.<ref name="CJR2015">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cjr.org/analysis/columbia_global_reports.php |title=Could a university be the savior longform journalism has been looking for? |last=Murtha |first=Jack |work=Columbia Journalism Review |quote=The university-funded publisher aims to produce novella-length narratives, sprinkled with analysis, on underreported stories rooted in globalization...Unlike most traditional book publishers (but like high-end magazines), Columbia Global Reports fact checks, pays writers' expenses, and has a total production time, from signed contract to store shelves, that's measured in months, not years |date=September 22, 2015 |access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref> From 2017 to early 2021, he was the director of Columbia World Projects.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Avril Haines Moves From Columbia World Projects to the Center of the World's Stage|url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/avril-haines-moves-columbia-world-projects-center-worlds-stage|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Columbia News|language=en}}</ref>

Lemann is the author or editor of several books, including ''[[Transaction Man|Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream]]'' (2019),  ''Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War'' (2006); ''The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy'' (1999); and ''The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America'' (1991), which won several book prizes. He has written widely for such publications as ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', ''[[The New Republic]]'', and ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''; worked in documentary television with Blackside, Inc., ''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]]'', the [[Discovery Channel]], and the [[BBC]]; and lectured at many universities.

Lemann serves on the boards of directors of the [[Authors Guild]], the [[National Academy of Sciences]]' Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and the Academy of Political Science, and is a member of the [[New York Institute for the Humanities]]. He was named a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in April 2010.<ref name=Profile />