Andrew Jacobs (journalist)

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'''Andrew Jacobs''' is an American correspondent for ''The New York Times''. He has been based in Beijing, China, since April 2008, covering the country for ''The New York Times''. He is also the director and producer of a 2008 documentary, ''Four Seasons Lodge''.

==Early life== Jacobs, who is Jewish and one of three children, was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Martin G. Jacobs, a nephrologist, and Barbara Jacobs.<ref name=party>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2008/10/documentarian_andrew_jacobs_on.html|title=Documentarian Andrew Jacobs on Partying With Holocaust Survivors at the 'Four Seasons Lodge'|author=Tim Murphy|date=October 17, 2008|work=Vulture}}</ref><ref name=first>[https://firstrunfeatures.com/presskits/fourseasonslodge/fourseasonslodge_pk.pdf "Four Seasons Lodge; A documentary film by Andrew Jacobs"], First Run Features</ref><ref name=star>{{cite web|url=http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=martin-g-jacobs&pid=163057811 |title=Dr. Martin G. Jacobs Obituary|work=The Star-Ledger|date=February 13, 2013 |access-date=August 3, 2014}}</ref> His sisters are Wendy, a county commissioner in Durham, North Carolina, and Ellen, a psychotherapist in Manhattan, New York City.<ref name=star/> He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey.<ref name=map>Haley Sweetland Edwards (March 27, 2009). [http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/a-homegrown-director-who-had-to-tell-this-story/ "A Homegrown Director who had to tell this Story"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629182225/http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/a-homegrown-director-who-had-to-tell-this-story/ |date=June 29, 2009 }}, ''The New York Times''.</ref> He graduated from Columbia High School, and from New York University, where he studied architecture and urban design.<ref name=first/><ref name=map/><ref name="NJNews">{{cite web|url=http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/020807/pmbASeasonOfSurvival.html|author=Marilyn Silverstein|title=A season of survival; A journalist's film-in-progress celebrates life after the Holocaust|work=New Jersey Jewish News|date=February 6, 2007|access-date=August 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102023134/http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/020807/pmbASeasonOfSurvival.html|archive-date=November 2, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://firstrunfeatures.com/fourseasonslodge_bio.html|title=Four Seasons Lodge; Filmmaker Bios – Andrew Jacobs, Director|work=First Run Features}}</ref>

In 1989, Jacobs was an English teacher at Hubei University in Wuhan, China.<ref name=first/><ref name=file>{{cite web|url=https://www.chinafile.com/contributors/andrew-jacobs|title=Andrew Jacobs|work=ChinaFile|date=February 5, 2014 }}</ref> He served as press secretary for Tom Duane during his successful run for the New York City Council in 1991.<ref name=first/>

==Journalism career== Jacobs contributed to the Associated Press, ''The Village Voice'', and ''New York Newsday'' during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.<ref name=first/> Later, he served as editor of ''Manhattan Spirit'' and ''Our Town'', founded and was news editor of ''QW'' magazine, and edited a number of New York City newsweeklies, including ''The Brooklyn Phoenix'' and ''The Villager''.<ref name=first/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_359/joejr.html|title=Joe Jr. was a diner with that extra-special flavor|work=The Villager|date=March 23, 2010|author=Ed Gold|access-date=December 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193306/http://thevillager.com/villager_359/joejr.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://www.manhattancc.org/news/newsarticledisplay.aspx?ArticleID=99 "Isis Venture Partners sells Manhattan Newspaper Group to Straus News"], February 1, 2013</ref>

He began writing for ''The New York Times'' in 1995.<ref name=usali/><ref name=revenge/> He has reported for various ''New York Times'' desks, including National, Business, Culture, and Styles.<ref name=usali/> In April 2008, he served as a ''New York Times'' correspondent in Beijing, China.<ref name=usali>{{cite web|url=http://usali.org/activity/andrew-jacobs-of-the-new-york-times-speaks-at-usali-2/ |title=Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times Speaks at USALI |date=December 2, 2014 |publisher=US-Asia Law Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508010653/http://usali.org/activity/andrew-jacobs-of-the-new-york-times-speaks-at-usali-2/ |archive-date=May 8, 2015 }}</ref><ref name=revenge>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollmagazine.com/archive/dec09/articles/theatre.php|title=A Fine Revenge: The Four Seasons Lodgers Live to Tell – Roll Stage & Screen: Creative Living in the Hudson Valley|work=Roll Magazine}}</ref> His writing focuses on Chinese politics, including Uighur-Han Chinese relations, Chen Guangcheng's escape, and the loss of power of Bo Xilai.<ref name=file/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SogBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|title=Journalism and Memory|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |author=Barbie Zelizer, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt|year=2014|isbn=978-1137263940}}</ref> He returned to the US in 2016 and now covers international health issues for the organization.

===Awards=== In 2002, he was part of a team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the September 11 attacks in Manhattan.<ref name=first/><ref name=usali/> In 2009, Jacobs was part of a team of reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting related to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/8331|title=The Pulitzer Prizes – 2009 — Breaking News Reporting; Spitzer Wrestles Over Response, Paralyzing Albany|work=pulitzer.org}}</ref>

In 2009, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) acknowledged his coverage of the government's crackdown on dissent during the Beijing Olympics entitled "In the Shadow of the Olympics" with an honorable mention in the category Excellence in Human Rights Reporting.<ref name=sopa/><ref>[https://www.sopasia.com/pdf/2009Brochure.pdf "The SOPA 2009 Awards for Editorial Excellence"], Sopasia.com, p. 19</ref> In 2010, SOPA acknowledged him and several other ''New York Times'' writers with the Award for Excellence in the category Excellence in Feature Writing for ''Uneasy Engagement'', a 10-part series that explored China's growing influence in the world.<ref name=usali/><ref name=sopa>{{cite web|url=https://www.sopasia.com/awards/2010/groupa.html |title=The SOPA 2010 Awards for Editorial Excellence |publisher=Sopasia.com|page= 19 |date= |access-date=August 3, 2014}}</ref> In 2011, he and a group of ''New York Times'' reporters were finalists for a Gerald Loeb Award, for their reporting on Google's clash with the Chinese government over censorship issues.<ref name=usali/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards/2011-finalist-bios |title=Gerald Loeb Awards Finalists for 2011 |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |access-date=November 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114014820/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/gerald-loeb-awards/2011-finalist-bios |archive-date=November 14, 2013 }}</ref>

==Film career== Jacobs directed and produced ''Four Seasons Lodge'', a feature-length 2008 documentary shot two years prior.<ref name=party/><ref name=map/><ref name="NJNews"/><ref name=film>{{cite web|url=http://fourseasonsmovie.com/?page_id=43|title=The Filmmakers: Four Seasons Lodge|work=fourseasonsmovie.com}}</ref><ref name=nytmov>Ella Taylor (November 10, 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/movies/11seasons.html "In the Catskills, Holocaust Survivors Forge a Bond"], ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref name=jp>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Features/Life-goes-on-at-Four-Seasons-Lodge|title=Life goes on at Four Seasons Lodge|work=The Jerusalem Post|author=Nathan Burstein|date=November 23, 2009}}</ref> It is about a group of elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors spending the summer at a {{convert|44|acre|m2|adj=on}} vacation bungalow colony in Ellenville in the Catskills in upstate New York prior to the property being sold.<ref name=party/><ref name=map/><ref name="NJNews"/><ref name=revenge/><ref name=nytmov/><ref name=home/><ref name=young/> The documentary is based on material he wrote for a series in the ''New York Times'' "Metro" section.<ref name=party/><ref name=map/><ref name="NJNews"/><ref name=revenge/><ref name=nytmov/><ref name=home>{{cite web|url=http://tabletmag.com/podcasts/20357/home-away-from-home|title=Home Away From Home; A new documentary chronicles the end of the road for Holocaust survivors' Catskills bungalow colony|work=Tablet Magazine|date=November 12, 2009}}</ref><ref name=young>Andrew Jacobs (September 8, 2005). [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/nyregion/08ink.html?sq=where%2080%20is%20young%20andrew%20jacobs&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1418310156-O8PY+na7CCd9YqyyozI+AQ "Where 80 Is Young, All Friends Are Old Friends"], ''The New York Times''.</ref>

Rather than interviewing the participants, Jacobs filmed them interacting with one another.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/holiday_preview/article/winter_treasures_on_screen_20091203|title=Winter Treasures on Screen – Holiday Preview|work=Jewish Journal|author=Iris Mann|date=December 3, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-10/film-tv/movie-reviews-broken-embraces-paa-a-single-man-armored/|title=Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored|date=December 10, 2014|author=Michelle Orange|work=LA Weekly}}</ref> Academy Award-nominated Albert Maysles was one of four cinematographers who worked on the film.<ref name=party/><ref name="NJNews"/><ref name=revenge/><ref name=nytmov/><ref name=home/> They shot 250 hours of film to create the 97-minute documentary.<ref name=jp/>

The film opened at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2008.<ref name=party/> It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.<ref name=revenge/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Twitter}} * [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/andrew_jacobs/ "Recent and archived news articles by Andrew Jacobs"], ''The New York Times'' *[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/series/thehardpart/ "The Hard Part: A Series; Articles in this series chronicle; Mayor Cory A. Booker's tenure in Newark's City Hall"], ''The New York Times'' *[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/world/series/uneasy_engagement/ "Articles in the Uneasy Engagement series from The New York Times examined the stresses and strains of China's emergence as a global power"], ''The New York Times'' *[http://fourseasonsmovie.com/ ''Four Seasons Lodge'' documentary website]

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