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Lionel Beehner

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Op-Ed Writing – (Class starts November 3)

Lionel Beehner
Lionel Beehner is formerly a senior writer for the Council on Foreign Relations. His writing has appeared in the op-ed pages of The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Russia Journal, Kiev Post, Seed, and Worth magazine. He writes a weekly blog on foreign affairs at the Huffington Post. His commentary has appeared on CNN International, BBC Radio, CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, CBC, Bloomberg TV, and Voice of America, as well as The New York Times Magazine, Washington Times, Newsweek International, and Weekly Standard. He was the 2006 recipient of a German Marshall Fund journalism fellowship for a research project on post-Soviet youth movements in Ukraine and Belarus. He holds a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Testimonials


Describing the maddening process of political writing so that it doesn't make students run for the hills is an impressive feat and one which Lionel Beehner managed to do quite well. His experience in the field both here and abroad definitely informs his discussion and the pointers he gives. -- Heather Chin

"Lionel Beenher knows exactly what he's talking about and has an impressive roster of published pieces. I trust him completely as an instructor and, because of his advice and spot-on editing, I got an op-ed published in The Los Angeles Times and syndicated as far away as Australia! I already have several assignments that spawned from that one piece and now I have the confidence to keep putting myself out there." -- Mary Kolesnikova