Seth Mnookin
| Seth Mnookin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Seth Mnookin April 27, 1972 Newton, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Newton North High School, Harvard University |
| Occupation | Writer and journalist |
| Parent(s) | Wendy Mnookin |
Seth Mnookin (born April 27, 1972) is an American writer and journalist.
As of 2012, he is the co-director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (magazine) and a blogger on the Public Library of Science blog network.
Mnookin is the author of three non-fiction books.
His first book, Hard News : The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media (Random House, 2004) grew out of reporting he did as a senior writer at Newsweek in 2002 and 2003. It uses the Jayson Blair plagiarism and fabrication scandal to conduct a broader examination of the troubles during the Howell Raines administration at the New York Times. It was named a Washington Post "Best Of" book for 2004 and was listed as one of the London Independent’s list of the Top 50 books ever written on the media. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from New York Magazine ("richly dramatic, hugely entertaining"),Entertainment Weekly ("vigorous, purposeful prose and a killer knack for building suspense"), the Los Angeles Times ("two terrific books in one: a riveting thriller...and a Shakespearean tragedy"), and The Washington Post ("hard to put down...reads like a thriller"), among other places, and the book prompted Hunter S. Thompson to say Mnookin was "one of the best and brightest journalists of this ominous, post-American century". A notable negative review was from The New York Times itself, which called the book "tedious" and said it "elevates trivial details to novelistic significance."
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