Harry Siegel
Encyclopedia
Harry Siegel is the City Hall columnist for the Village Voice. He currently lives in Brooklyn
, New York.
, Siegel worked at The New York Sun
as an editorial writer and the paper's first OpEd page editor when it launched in 2002. He would go on to found the web magazine New Partisan with Tim Marchman
. Siegel was editor-in-chief of New York Press
in 2005 and 2006, and worked as an editor at Politico from 2008-2010. In the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has also immersed himself in politics at times, working as a researcher for political consultant Hank Sheinkopf in 2001, and as policy director for New York State gubernatorial candidate Thomas Suozzi
in 2006.
) of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life, which appeared on the 100 Notable Books of 2005 list compiled by The New York Times
. Siegel's commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal
, City Journal, The New Republic
, The New York Post
, The New York Observer and The Weekly Standard
. He has made guest appearances on CNN
, MSNBC
and National Public Radio.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York.
Biography
Siegel is a lifelong resident of the Brooklyn area of New York City. He graduated from Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, Siegel worked at The New York Sun
New York Sun
The New York Sun was a weekday daily newspaper published in New York City from 2002 to 2008. When it debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of an otherwise unrelated earlier New York paper, The Sun , it became the first general-interest broadsheet newspaper to be started...
as an editorial writer and the paper's first OpEd page editor when it launched in 2002. He would go on to found the web magazine New Partisan with Tim Marchman
Tim Marchman
Tim Marchman is a baseball columnist who most recently wrote for the now-defunct New York Sun newspaper. His columns focus on the New York Yankees and New York Mets, as well as other Major League Baseball teams.-External links:* Author archive....
. Siegel was editor-in-chief of New York Press
New York Press
New York Press was a free alternative weekly in New York City, that was published from 1988 to 2011. During its lifetime, it was the main competitor to the Village Voice...
in 2005 and 2006, and worked as an editor at Politico from 2008-2010. In the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has also immersed himself in politics at times, working as a researcher for political consultant Hank Sheinkopf in 2001, and as policy director for New York State gubernatorial candidate Thomas Suozzi
Thomas Suozzi
Thomas R. "Tom" Suozzi was the county executive of Nassau County, New York. He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971.In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic...
in 2006.
Writing
Siegel is co-author (with his father Fred SiegelFred Siegel
Fred Siegel is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute who focuses on urban policy and politics...
) of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life, which appeared on the 100 Notable Books of 2005 list compiled by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. Siegel's commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, City Journal, The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
, The New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
, The New York Observer and The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
. He has made guest appearances on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
and National Public Radio.
External Links
- CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight Transcript of panel that included Siegel and Lou DobbsLou DobbsLouis Carl "Lou" Dobbs is an American journalist, radio host, television host on the Fox Business Network, and author. He anchored CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight until November 2009 when he announced on the air that he would leave the 24-hour cable news television network.He was born in Texas and lived...
- The Situation With Tucker Carlson Transcript of panel that included Siegel and Tucker CarlsonTucker CarlsonTucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel...