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Greg Mitchell

Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher, an authoritative journal covering the newspaper industry for almost 125 years. During Mitchell's time there, the magazine has won 11 Neal Awards, the top prize for the business press and one of the top totals for any magazine. Three times during this period it has won the top prize for news coverage for its coverage of the media and Iraq.

His latest book is So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President— Failed on Iraq, (March 2008, Union Square Press). Mitchell has written a number of other nonfiction books including Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon Vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas and The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics. He wrote two books with Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima in America and Who Owns Death?, which explored capital punishment. He has also written a book about coaching his son in Little League, called Joy in Mudville.