Joel Dreyfuss

Joel Dreyfuss (born September 1945) is a Haitian-American journalist, editor, and author whose active career has spanned over five decades across print, broadcast, and digital media in the United States and internationally. He has held senior editorial positions at major publications including The Washington Post, Fortune, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Markets, and has reported from cities including New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Paris.

Career

Dreyfuss co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists and was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 1981.

Over his extensive career, he worked in reporting and senior editorial roles at the Associated Press, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The New York Post, as well as serving as a news producer for KPIX-TV and on-air contributor for KQED-FM’s Newsroom and WNET’s 51st State.

He held leadership positions at several major magazines and technology publications, serving as: Editor-in-chief: Red Herring and Information Week Editor: PC Magazine Executive editor: Black Enterprise Managing editor: The Root Editor-in-chief: Urban Box Office (media startup) and his writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Butterfly’s Way, edited by Edwidge Danticat. He is also credited with writing Simon’s New Song, an award-winning animated children’s film. and Travel sections, and has written for Politico. His commentary has focused on international affairs, Haiti, French politics, race, and media criticism.

Dreyfuss has won several journalism awards, including one from the Overseas Press Club. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Black Journalists, and he has received the Townsend Harris Medal, the highest alumni honor awarded by the City College of New York.

Personal life Dreyfuss was born in September 1945 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Monrovia (Liberia), Paris, and New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from City College of New York in 1971,

He has lived in multiple cities throughout his life and career, including Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Tokyo. He currently divides his time between New York and Paris, where he has continued work on a book chronicling his family’s 300-year relationship with Haiti.

Selected works

Books The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality (with Charles R. Lawrence III), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.

Film Simon’s New Song, animated children’s film (Nguzo Saba Productions) – award-winning.

Anthologies Contributed essays to The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States, ed. Edwidge Danticat (Soho Press, 2001).

Albums King Nando Shing-a-ling - with King Nando and his Orchestra King Nando El Solitario (The Loner) Gerald Merceron: Haiti Insolite Kako 1915

Columns & Commentary Regular contributor to The Washington Post Global Opinions (2016–2018), writing on race, Haiti, international politics, and media.