LENOX, Mass. Lenox Library will continue its Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. with Peter Canellos, Managing Editor of Enterprise at POLITICO.

 

The lecture is free and open to the public. Please visit https://lenoxlib.org or the Library's Facebook page for more information.

 

Peter Canellos is the author of "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero," which Publisher's Weekly named as one of the top 20 nonfiction books of 2021. As managing editor for enterprise at POLITICO, he oversees the site's magazine, investigative journalism, and major projects. He also has been POLITICO's executive editor, overseeing the newsroom during the 2016 presidential coverage, and the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe.

 

A native of Boston, Peter is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Law School. He spent most of his career at the Globe, where at various points he oversaw the paper's local news coverage and Washington, D.C., bureau. As the Globe's editorial page editor, he authored numerous editorials urging Bostonians to overcome their parochial divisions and embrace their status as a world-class city.

 

He also edited the Globe's book, "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy," which was a top-10 New York Times bestseller in 2009. The book also set the stage for much of the analysis of Kennedy's career following his death from cancer, and supplied most of the anecdotes for President Barack Obama's eulogy of Kennedy.

 

For the past 12 years, Peter has worked with the International Women's Media Foundation overseeing the Elizabeth Neuffer fellowship, given to a woman journalist from around the world to study human rights at MIT and intern at the Globe and New York Times. He has also traveled overseas on human rights trips with the US Holocaust Museum, International Reporting Project, and Robert Bosch foundation, among other groups.

 

As an editor, he has overseen two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects along with five others that were Pulitzer finalists, among many other awards. As a writer, he was recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors award in 2011 for excellence in editorial writing along with the 2022 George Polk Award, Robin Toner Award, and News Leaders Association Batten Medal for his writing about the Supreme Court. He was also a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.