Michael C. Janeway

Michael Charles Janeway (May 31, 1940 – April 17, 2014) was an American journalist. He was editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Career Janeway began his journalism career at Newsday in 1963. In 1967, he began working as an editor for the Atlantic Monthly. He was executive editor when he departed in 1978, to join the Boston Globe newspaper. Janeway was promoted from managing editor of the Sunday Globe to editor-in-chief of the newspaper in January 1985.

In 1977, Janeway served as special assistant to United States Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, during the Carter administration.

Personal life and education Born in New York City, Janeway was the son of Elizabeth Hall Janeway and Eliot Janeway. His father was born Jewish and had changed his surname from Jacobstein. Janeway received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1962.