Jack Hitt
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Jack Hitt is an American author. He is a contributing editor to Harper's, GQ, and This American Life. He previously served as a contributing editor to the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca. He also frequently appears in places like the New York Times Magazine and Outside Magazine. In 1990, he received the Livingston Award for national coverage. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hitt was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where he attended the exclusive Porter-Gaud School. He got his start in journalism as editor of the Paper Clip, the literary magazine of Porter-Gaud's first through fifth grades. According to his biography, he published "some of the finest haiku penned by well-off pre-teens in all of South Carolina's lowcountry".
Since 1996, Hitt has been regularly contributing to This American Life.
"Pro-Life Nation,"[1] a piece written by Hitt and featured in the New York Times Magazine on April 9, 2006, was criticized on December 31, 2006 [2], by the New York Times public editor, Byron Calame, who concluded that the article contained an anecdote that was not accurate. Hitt had reported that Carmen Climaco had received a 30-year jail sentence for having an abortion, but in fact the court concluded that Ms Climaco had strangled her full-term baby after it was delivered, and sentenced her for homicide. An "editor's note" published on January 7, 2007 said that the article had been based on a trial judge's account "that she believed that Ms. Climaco had an abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant, and that she regretted allowing the case to be tried as a homicide"; a later three-judge panel, however, had overturned that finding.[3] The controversy led one conservative writer to complain that the author of the piece "is a freelance writer for numerous elite left-wing publications" whose "long cover story … hinged on a blatant lie."[4]
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[edit] Books
- Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (1994)
- In a Word: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist, But Ought To (1992) ISBN 0-440-50358-2
- The Harper’s Forum Book (editor, 1991)
- Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (editor, 1991)
[edit] Radio
Jack Hitt's work can be heard on the following episodes of This American Life:no
- 1996: 15, 19, 38
- 1997: 56, 61, 65, 68, 85
- 1998: 100, 110, 115
- 1999: 120, 123, 145
- 2000: 171
- 2001: none
- 2002: 216, 218
- 2003: 229, 250, 252, 253
- 2004: 262, 276, 278
- 2005: 280, 283
- 2006: 310
- 2007: 323
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[edit] References
- ^ "Pro-Life Nation", New York Times Magazine, 9 April 2006
- ^ "Truth, Justice, Abortion and the Times Magazine", The New York Times, 30 December 2006
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?ex=1302235200&en=d855d80018cd6c56&ei=5088&partner=rssuserland
- ^ http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2007/01/04/ny_times_admits_to_a_blatent_lie
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