Jim Frederick Biography

Jim Frederick is the editor in chief of Time.com, as well as an executive editor at TIME magazine, and the writer of Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death. He worked as a senior editor at TIME in London from August 2006 to January 2008, where he was in charge of coordinating coverage of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for the weekly newsmagazine and the time.com webpage. Before that, he was the Tokyo Bureau Chief for TIME for 4 years, where he published and wrote about Japanese culture, society, government, economics, and international politics. Frederick, a former soldier covering the United States military and the military justice system, has made 2 reporting trips to Iraq for TIME and has written several books about the case of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who attempted to cross the De-Militarized Zone into communist North Korea in 1965 and therefore only returned to the West in 2004, where he confronted a U.S. Army court-martial. Only until current Iraq and Afghanistan-related testing, this was the most high-profile court-martial of the post-Vietnam era. Frederick and Jenkins co-wrote The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and 40-Year Imprisonment in North Korea, that was released by the University of California Press in March 2008, and in March 2009 it was published in paperback. Frederick worked as a managing editor in New York at Money magazine before joining TIME. During his first five and a half years at Money, Frederick decided to write or edit stories on virtually every topic covered by the magazine, from banking, stocks, and mutual funds to travel, retirement, and savings. He wrote or edited long-form business profiles and economic analyses, such as one on Microsoft's $40 billion cash hoard and another on the financial impact of 9/11 on the US economy. Frederick has written for a variety of publications, including Real Simple and the New York Times Magazine. He has been a regular public speaker and panelist at events hosted by the World Economic Forum and other organizations, and he has shown up frequently on radio and television, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, sixty Minutes, and NPR. He achieved an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BA in English literature from Columbia University. He is a native of Libertyville, Illinois. He is living in New York City.

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