Hazel Park High School Alumni
Hazel Park, Michigan (MI)
Jack Lessenberry
Hazel Park High School
Class of 1969
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JACK'S PROFILE
First Name | Jack |
Last Name | Lessenberry |
Graduation Year | Class of 1969 |
Gender | Male |
City | N/A |
State/Province | MI |
Country | United States |
Occupation | Journalist/professor |
Married | Yes |
About Me | attempted to make a difference Jack Lessenberry, a full-time member of the journalism faculty at Wayne State University, is WUOM-FM's senior political analyst and delivers daily essays and commentary on important Michigan issues. He also is or been a writer for many national and regional publications, including Vanity Fair, Esquire, George, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. Currently, he is a contributing editor and columnist for the Metro Times, the Traverse-City Record Eagle and the Toledo Blade, and formerly for the Oakland Press and the Heritage Newspaper Group in Wayne and Washtenaw counties. He also serves as The Blade's writing coach and ombudsman, and is a member of the Wayne State Student Newspaper Publications Board. He is also host of the weekly television show "Deadline Now" on WGTE-TV (Channel 30) in Toledo. It airs Fridays at 8:30 p.m. Lessenberry has reported as foreign correspondent for and executive national editor of The Detroit News, during which time he reported from more than 40 countries. He has also worked for other newspapers in Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio, and was Editor-in-Chief of both Detroit Monthly and Corporate Detroit magazines. He also does occasional analysis for television stations in Detroit, and won a National Emmy award in 1995 for one of two Frontline documentaries he helped report and produce on Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Lessenberry also was featured in a March 1996 A&E Biography he helped produce on Kevorkian, and has assisted on two more for British television, and on a Court TV documentary about Detroit and the Belle Isle bridge slaying. He was named the Journalist of the Year in 2002 by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Lessenberry, 59, has a master's degree in Journalism and East European studies from the University of Michigan. His partner in life, Elizabeth...(read more) |
Class of 1969 Alumni
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Recent Class of 1969 Reunions
Plan a Class of 1969 Reunion for Free
HPHS All Class Reunion
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Oct 05, 2011
Description: Only 500 people will be admitted, must submit check before September 14th,2011. If yopur check is returned to you that j...(read more)