About James Fallows
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Breaking the News will be the home for regular posts, podcasts, photos, reader-mail, guest essays, and other dispatches from James Fallows—that’s me.
I am a long-time reporter and writer of books and magazine articles. At different times I’ve been a public radio commentator; once a White House speechwriter; and for two years a newsmagazine editor. In the 1990s, I was part of a software-design team at Microsoft; I’ve taught at a number of universities; and since the 1990s I’ve been an active instrument-rated private pilot. Recently I was part of an HBO filmmaking team and am co-founder of a new NGO.