Edward Kosner

Edward Kosner (born July 26. 1937) is an American journalist and author who served as the top editor of Newsweek, New York and Esquire magazines and the New York Daily News during a forty-five-year career. He is the author of a memoir, “It’s News to Me,” published in 2006, and is a frequent book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York and on Amelia Island on the Atlantic coast of northern Florida.

Kosner was born in New York City, the son of Sidney Kosner, a salesman for a men’s and boy’s outerwear manufacturer, and Annalee Fisher Kosner, a housewife. Growing up in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, he was the editor of his elementary and junior high school newspapers. At 16, he enrolled at City College, where was editor-in-chief of the undergraduate newspaper, the Campus, and the CCNY correspondent for The New York Times.

On graduation from CCNY in 1958, Kosner joined the New York Post, then a liberal tabloid owned by Dorothy Schiff., He spent five years at the paper, working on night rewrite, as a series writer, and as an assistant city editor. In 1963, he was hired by Newsweek as a writer in the National Affairs section. His first cover story was on Jacqueline Kennedy’s new life after the assassination of her husband. Over the next fifteen years, Kosner wrote more than a score of cover stories, started a section on urban problems, and held all the top editorial positions on the magazine under Osborn Elliott. He directed the magazine’s extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

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