Peter R. Kann
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| Born | 1942 (age 81–82)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
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| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Karen Elliott House |
Peter R. Kann (born 1942) is an American journalist, editor, and businessman.
Kann was born to a Jewish family in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.[1]
In 1963, he joined the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal.[1] In 1964, he was promoted to staff reporter working in both the Pittsburgh and Los Angeles news bureaus.[1] In 1967, Kann became the Wall Street Journal's first resident reporter in Vietnam and from 1969 to 1975, he was based in Hong Kong covering the Vietnam War and other events in Asia.[1] In 1972, he earned a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Indo-Pakistan War in Bangladesh.[2] In 1976 he became the first editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Asia.[3] He returned to the United States in 1976. He was named publisher of The Wall Street Journal in 1988.[4] From 1992 until 2006 he was CEO and chairman of the boardofDow Jones & Company.
He is a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study,[5] Trustee Emeritus of the Asia Society,[6] and adjunct faculty at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[citation needed]
He is married to Karen Elliott House.[7]
A native of Princeton N.J., Mr. Kann graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in government. He began his newspaper career in high school as a copy boy for the Princeton Packet.
Peter R. Kann was named publisher of The Wall Street Journal and editorial director of other publications of its parent, Dow Jones & Company, in a shuffling of titles yesterday ... effective Jan. 1.
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