Jack Newfield

Jack Abraham Newfield was a muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary film maker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Mr. Newfield wrote for the The Village Voice, Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine,Tikkun , Mother Jones , and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. Mr. Newfield believed the facts should be contextualized within a larger understandings. In his autobiography, Somebodys Gotta Tell It The Upbeat Memoir of a WorkingClass Journalist , Mr. Newfield stated, The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth. A career beat reporter, Mr. Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music. He authored numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prop

Jack Newfield was born and grew up in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, raised by his mother, Ethel Newfield. When he was four years old, his father Phillip Newfield died of a heart attack. An only child, Newfield was a latchkey kid The ethos of his upbringing led him to establish a professional approach he identified as advocacy journalism.

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