Michael C. Janeway
Michael Charles Janeway was a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was editor of the Boston Globe and dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.Biography
Born in New York City, Janeway was the son of Elizabeth and Eliot Janeway. His father was born Jewish and had changed his surname from Jacobstein. He has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. He was also the executive editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He also worked for a time as special assistant to United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
Among books by Janeway are The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas & Power from FDR to LBJ and Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life.
He died of cancer at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut on April 17, 2014.
His brother is William H. Janeway, a venture capitalist and economist.
