Charles Eisendrath
After graduating in History at Yale, Eisendrath became a journalist, and reported for the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and "Baltimore Evening Sun". Eisendrath then joined "Time Magazine" as a correspondent in Washington, London and Paris, eventually becoming bureau chief in Buenos Aires where he was responsible for all news operations in Hispanic South America. His work has appeared on NPR and in "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", the "International Herald Tribune" and "The Atlantic". He has been a guest on ABC’s "Good Morning America" and a commentator on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” From 1975 to 2016 he was a professor at the University of Michigan where he founded Wallace House, which includes the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowships, one of the nation's leading mid-career professional journalism programs, and The Livingston Awards, widely known as "the Pulitzer Prize for the Young," raising $60 million endowment to permanently sustain the Fellowships, and was founding director of the Prizes. He and his wife, Julia, live in Ann Arbor and East Jordan, Michigan, have two sons, Benjamin Cardozo E and Mark William E, and three grandsons.
Career
He is most notable for being the director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan, and credited with turning it into one of American journalism’s most prestigious university programs. He is a long-time Time magazine correspondent.