Marc Tracy
Marc Aaron Tracy[1] is an American journalist. He is a reporter on the Culture desk at The New York Times.[2] Tracy was a staff writer at The New Republic and at Tablet, where he won a National Magazine Award for Blogging.[3] He also won a National Jewish Book Award in 2012 for co-editing the anthology Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.[4] BiographyTracy received his BA from Columbia University in 2007.[5] He was a senior editor for The Blue and White and a writer for the Columbia Political Review.[6] Tracy started his journalism career at Tablet magazine, where he ran the blog that won the last National Magazine Award given for blogging.[3] While editing Tablet's blog, Tracy approached Franklin Foer about writing a sports-themed book, which eventually led to the idea for the anthology Jewish Jocks.[7] The book won a 2012 National Jewish Book Award.[8] The New Republic hired Tracy as a staff writer in 2012, writing about the media, politics and New York City intelligentsia.[9][10] In 2014, Tracy joined the staff of The New York Times, covering college athletics for the paper's Sports desk.[11] He joined the Business desk in 2019, covering topics in the media industry including the decline of local print media and The New York Times Company.[12] In 2022, Tracy joined the paper's Culture desk to cover debates about representation and politics in the arts.[13] Personal lifeTracy is married to Amanda Hess, who is also a journalist and critic at The New York Times.[1][14] References
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