Michael Oreskes

From a bio note on the Global Creative Leadership Summit website, where he was a speaker in 2007:

Michael Oreskes became executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in May 2005. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of The New York Times since November 2004. In that role, he oversaw the Times Web and television content. During this period, television programs produced by The New York Times won numerous awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award, the George Polk award, the George Foster Peabody Award, Harvard’s Goldsmith award, and several Emmy awards. Mr. Oreskes also supervised the Times’s relationship with the International Herald Tribune. He had been an assistant managing editor and director of electronic news since 2000. Previously, Mr. Oreskes served as the Times Washington bureau chief. During his four-and-a-half year tenure bureau members won three Pulitzer Prizes. Mr. Oreskes directed the newspaper’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Prior to Washington, Mr. Oreskes served as metropolitan editor, during which time the metro desk won two Pulitzer Prizes and a Polk Award for local reporting. From 1987 until 1991, he served as congressional correspondent and national political correspondent in the Washington bureau. Mr. Oreskes came to The Times from the New York Daily News. He received a bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York.

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• Advisory board Polis