Picayune Item

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Founded	1904
Headquarters	17 Richardson-Ozona Road Picayune, Mississippi 39466  United States
Circulation	6,136 daily[1]
Official website	picayuneitem.com

The Picayune Item is a five-day daily newspaper published in Picayune, Mississippi, USA, covering Pearl River County and parts of Hancock County, Mississippi. It publishes in the evening, Tuesday through Friday, and on Sunday mornings. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

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External links[link]

	Mississippi portal
	Journalism portal

• Picayune Item Website
• CNHI Website

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Walter Isaacson
Isaacson at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1952-05-20) May 20, 1952 (age 60) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Residence	Washington, DC
Occupation	Author
Spouse	Cathy Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is a writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of TIME. He has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.

Early life[link]

Walter Isaacson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating from New Orleans' Isidore Newman School and a summer at Deep Springs College as a participant in the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), Isaacson attended Harvard College and earned a B. A. in 1974 in history and literature. While at Harvard, Isaacson was president of the Signet Society, a member of the Harvard Lampoon and a resident of Lowell House. He then attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College and read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE).

Career[link]

Walter Isaacson began his career in journalism at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's fourteenth editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.

He is the author of American Sketches (2009), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007),^[1] Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and he is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). He is the editor of Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness (2010, W. W. Norton).

On October 24, 2011, Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs was published by Simon & Schuster. It became an instant international best-seller, breaking all records for sales of a biography. The book was based on over forty interviews with Jobs over a two year period right up until shortly before his death. Isaacson also drew on conversations with friends, family members, and business rivals of the entrepreneur whose vision revolutionized computing, music, phones, animated films, and even publishing.^[2][3][4][5]

He is the chairman of the board of Teach for America. He is on the boards of United Airlines, Tulane University, Overseers of Harvard University, the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and the Society of American Historians. In 2012, he was selected as one of the Time 100, the magazine's list of the most influential people in the world.^[6]

Government service[link]

Isaacson as Chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, at a State Department briefing, April 29, 2008

In October 2005, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco appointed Isaacson vice chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, a board that oversaw spending on the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. In December 2007, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, which seeks to create economic and educational opportunities in the Palestinian territories.^[7] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed him vice-chair of the Partners for a New Beginning, which encourages private-sector investments and partnerships in the Muslim world.^[8] He also serves as the cochair of the U.S.-Vietnamese Dialogue on Agent Orange, which in January 2008 announced completion of a project to contain the dioxin left behind by the U.S. at the Da Nang air base and plans to build health centers and a dioxin laboratory in the affected regions.^[9] In 2009, he was appointed by President Obama to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the other international broadcasts of the U.S. government.^[10] He served until January 2012.

Bibliography[link]

• Steve Jobs (2011)
• American Sketches (2009)
• Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003)
• Kissinger: A Biography (1992)
• The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) – co-authored with Evan Thomas

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External links[link]

• List of recent articles by Walter Isaacson
• List of recent articles about Walter Isaacson
• Harvard Business Review on the "Real Lessons of Steve Jobs"
• An interview with Walter Isaacson about his book "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
• The Scale of Einstein, From Faith to Formulas, by Janet Maslin, The New York Times, April 9, 2007.
• Walter Isaacson's writer biog at Curtis Brown Literary Agency.
• A film clip "The Open Mind – An American Aristocracy (1986)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
• Booknotes interview with Isaacson on Kissinger: A Biography, September 27, 1992.