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Adam Moss
(1958 - living) U.S.A.

Adam Moss

Editor

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Adam Moss graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. degree in 1979. Moss' first job in journalism after graduating was as a copy boy at The Times. He then worked at Rolling Stone magazine, and at Esquire magazine in a variety of positions, including managing editor and deputy editor.

In 1990, he was founding editor of 7 Days, which won the National Magazine Award for general excellence in its circulation class in 1990. From 1991 to 1993, Moss was a consulting editor to The Times, responsible for the development and redesign of various sections of the paper.

Adam MossAdam joined the magazine as editorial director in 1993, and was named editor of The New York Times Magazine in 1998. During his tenure as editor, the magazine received many awards for journalism, photography and design, including two Overseas Press Club Awards, the Livingston Award for international reporting and Magazine of the Year from the Society of Publication Design.

In 2000, he had been named an associate managing editor of The New York Times, while remaining editor of The New York Times Magazine. Under his leadership, the magazine was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the issue "Talking About Race" was part of The Times series that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001.

Moss was named by Columbia Journalism Review as one of the "10 Best Magazine Editors" in 2000 and "Advertising Age's Editor of The Year" in 2001. Most recently, Moss served as assistant managing editor for features at The New York Times, a position that was created for him in August of 2003. He left in 2004 the New York Times to become New York magazine editor-in-chief.

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