Charles Lane Biography
Charles Lane is an American journalist and editor who works for The Washington Post as an editorial writer and is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel. From 1997 to 1999, he was the editor of The New Republic.
How old is Charles Lane? – Age
He is 59 years old as of 2022. He was born in 1961, in the United States. His real name is Charles “Chuck” Lane.
Charles Lane Family
Lane was born to a Jewish family and attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, where he was managing editor of The Tattler, the school newspaper. In 1983, he graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in social studies. In 1997, he received a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law School as a Knight Fellow.
Charles Lane Wife
Lane is married to a former East Berlin German immigrant. They are the parents of three children.
Charles Lane Culture
The New Republic’s 1998 journalistic crisis was the subject of the 2003 film Shattered Glass. Lane, as well as writer and director Billy Ray, appear on the DVD’s commentary track. Lane was interviewed by Terry Gross on an episode of Fresh Air after the film’s debut. Glass wrote The Fabulist, a biographical novel on his fabrication career, in 2003.
Charles Lane Controversies
Lane wrote in 2009 that a lady who was suing for medical marijuana had “chronic weight loss due to an inability to keep meals down — was life-threatening.” In 2010, he attempted to debunk research that found millions of Americans were suffering from hunger or “food insecurity.” Some people called Lane’s remarks exploitative and offensive. He said in 2011 that if Gabby Giffords could talk normally, she would speak out against union workers.
Charles Lane Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of net worth is $2 Million.
Charles Lane Salary
He earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Charles Lane Career
Lane was a former foreign journalist for Newsweek, where he also worked as the Berlin bureau head for a while. Lane received a Citation of Excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the former Yugoslavia in Newsweek.”
After sacking then-editor Michael Kelly, The New Republic’s owner, Marty Peretz, selected Lane as editor in 1997. Kelly had written a series of pieces about President Bill Clinton and his Vice President, Al Gore, that Peretz felt were unfairly critical of them. Peretz had been a Harvard classmate of Gore’s, and the two men remained close friends afterward. Kelly was said to be irritated by Peretz’s demands for more pro-Gore stories and editorials in the magazine, especially as Gore was preparing to run for president and Clinton’s second term was coming to a close.
When faked reporting by a staff writer, Stephen Glass, was revealed in The New Republic in 1998, it became one of the biggest journalistic scandals in modern American history. Glass fired in a lane. Peretz then fired Lane, claiming that Lane should have caught Glass’s deception sooner. Peter Beinart was substituted for Lane by Peretz. Lane is said to have learned about his dismissal via the media before hearing from Peretz.
According to The New York Times, the Glass fabrications were “the worst scandal in the magazine’s history, marking a decade of fading prominence and rising financial losses.” Peretz faulted both Kelly and Lane, who had overseen and edited Glass, for not finding the fraud sooner in explaining why it took so long to catch Glass’s fraud. Lane, according to Peretz, ignored evident warning signs of the falsification before wrongly blaming his predecessor, Kelly. Lane’s alleged inaction, according to Peretz, “sullied the good name of the New Republic.” Lane was then sacked by Peretz.
Lane became an editorial writer for The Washington Post after being fired as editor of The New Republic. Lane later returned to the Post’s editorial board in 2007, after covering the Supreme Court for the paper. Lane focused on fiscal and economic issues during his second time on the newspaper’s editorial board.
Lane has also taught journalism part-time at Princeton University and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Lane wrote The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Slaughter, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction in 2008, a book on the 1873 massacre of blacks by white militia in Louisiana, which included the murder of surrendering prisoners.