William McGowan

William McGowan is the author of Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri
Lanka (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Coloring The News: How Political
Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism (Encounter Books) for
which he won a National Press Club Award in 2002. A former editor at the
Washington Monthly, he has reported for Newsweek International and the
BBC and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington
Post, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, and many other
national publications. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal,
he has been a frequent commentator on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, Court
TV as well as other cable and broadcast networks. A former Senior Fellow
at the Manhattan Institute, he is currently a Media Fellow at the
Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He lives in New York City.