 | J.F.O. McAllister |
Time magazine's London Bureau chief, J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister will speak on campus on Monday, Feb. 20, as the next Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale.
McAllister will give a talk titled "Running the World Without Really Trying: The Decline of Foreign News in America and Why It Is Dangerous" at 5 p.m. in Rm. 119 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. Earlier that day, at 4 p.m., he will be the guest at a master's tea at the Ezra Stiles College master's house, 19 Tower Pkwy. Both events are free and open to the public.
As Time's London Bureau chief, a post he has held since 1999, McAllister supervises coverage of the city and region for Time and Time International.
He previously served as deputy chief of the magazine's Washington Bureau from 1997 to 1999 and was crucial to Time's coverage of the Clinton White House and the Kenneth Starr investigaton. Prior to that he was Time's White House correspondent from 1995 until 1997.
McAllister served as diplomatic correspondent, beginning in 1994, accompanying Secretaries of State James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger and Warren Christopher on their foreign travels, and contributing to more than 40 cover stories on diplomacy.
An alumnus of both Yale College and the Yale Law School, McAllister worked as a stringer in Time's Washington, London and Boston bureaus during his undergraduate years. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a concentration in American diplomatic history, afterwards working in Manila as a Luce Scholar for an Asian news service. As a Marshall Scholar he earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford, and while there also wrote the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson, an ambassador to Japan and under secretary of state. After graduating from the Yale Law School, McAllister clerked for a federal judge and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York.
After returning to Washington, D.C., in 1989 to cover the State Department for Time, McAllister covered Gulf War diplomacy, the Middle East peace talks, the tensions over North Korea's nuclear program, U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and Russia, and the U.S. deployments to Somalia and Haiti.
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