Career
Glassman began his career as a journalist and publisher.
While a student at Harvard, he served as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. After graduation, he took a job as a Sunday writer for the Boston Herald Traveler. In 1971, he became editor and publisher of The Advocate of Provincetown, MA.
In 1972 Glassman began a weekly newspaper in New Orleans, called Figaro. He sold the paper in 1979 and moved back to Washington as executive editor of The Washingtonian magazine. In 1981, he served as publisher of The New Republic before becoming president of The Atlantic Monthly. He simultaneously served as executive vice-president of U.S. News & World Report between 1984 and 1986.
From 1987 until 1993, Glassman was part-owner and editor of Roll Call. He and his partner, Arthur Levitt Jr., sold the company to The Economist.
In 2000, he founded Tech Central Station (now TCS Daily), an online magazine.
Between 1993 and 2004, he wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post business section and the International Herald Tribune.
Glassman has also worked in television. He was moderator of CNN's "Capital Gang Sunday" from 1995-1998. During this time he also hosted PBS's weekly "TechnoPolitics." From February 2010 to June 2012, he hosted “Ideas in Action,” a weekly PBS series on public policy issues.
From 1996 to 2008, Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. While there, from 2005 to 2007, he founded and served as editor-in-chief of The American, the American Enterprise Institute's bimonthly magazine of business and economics.
In 2003, Glassman served on the U.S. government's Advisory Board on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World.
From June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), directing all non–military, taxpayer–funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks] (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa).
On December 11, 2007 Glassman was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace Karen Hughes as the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He served in the position from June 2008 to January 2009, leading the government–wide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was bringing new internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign publics, an approach he christened “Public Diplomacy 2.0.”
Newsweek said about him: “James K. Glassman, as they say in Washington, gets it. The under secretary of state for public diplomacy has been on the job for only six months, but he has already scored small successes in the U.S. effort to win over ‘hearts and minds’ in the Muslim world, a hard sell if ever there was one…. Glassman has finally figured out how to sell the American idea abroad.”
He continued to serve as a governor of the BBG, representing the Secretary of State, during his time as Under Secretary.
On September 3, 2009, Glassman was named Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy institute dedicated to research and action in education, global health, human freedom, and economic growth. The Institute is part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which also includes a presidential library and museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
For the 2009-2010 school year, he was Diplomat-in-Residence at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He taught a course on public diplomacy to undergraduates.
He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corporation and was Senior Advisor to AT&T Corporation and SAP America, Inc.
He is a frequent commentator on business and investing issues. His work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, and The Times Literary Supplement (London).
Additionally, Glassman is one of 21 members of the Investor Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, established in April 2012 as part of the Dodd-Frank law.
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