Andrew Jaffe

{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} '''Andrew Jaffe''' (August 2, 1938 – February 26, 2010) was an American journalist and executive of ''Adweek''. Jaffe joined ''Adweek'' in 1986 and presided over the company as it acquired the Clio Awards for its parent corporation BPI Communications.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |last1=Elliott |first1=Stuart |title=Andrew Jaffe, Who Brought Clios to Adweek, Is Dead at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/business/media/06jaffe.html |access-date=15 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 March 2010}}</ref> He left BPI in 2003, creating a consulting firm, Compass Consulting, and authoring a book, ''Casting for Big Ideas''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-02-26|title=Former Adweek exec Andrew Jaffe dies|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/former-adweek-exec-andrew-jaffe-21140/|access-date=2021-10-15|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

Jaffe attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He then enrolled at Pomona College, where he was sent by ''The Student Life'' to cover the sit-in movement in Nashville, Tennessee.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lyon|first=E. Wilson|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofpomonac0000lyon|title=The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969|date=1977|publisher=The Castle Press|location=Anaheim, California|pages=556|language=en|oclc=4114776|author-link=E. Wilson Lyon|url-access=registration}}</ref> After serving in the Army, Jaffe graduated from the school of journalism at Columbia University. He first worked for the Associated Press, moved to Atlanta, where he worked for ''Newsweek'' in domestic bureaus and as a foreign correspondent to Africa in Kenya.<ref name=nytimes /> He later became the business editor of the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner''.<ref name=nytimes /> He began his career with ''Adweek'' as an editor in Atlanta in 1986.

Jaffe was married to Eileen Ast and had two sons.<ref>Keynote speaker bio, Keynote Address, ''Boards Summit'', October 24, 2006, {{cite web|url=http://www2.boardssummit.com/2006/speakers.html?a%3D608864%26_c%3D1 |title=Boards Summit 2006 - Speakers |accessdate=2010-03-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110093555/http://www.boardssummit.com/2006/speakers.html?a=608864 |archivedate=2006-11-10 }}</ref>

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