Fareed Zakaria - Career

Career

After directing a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine in 1992 at the age of 28. Under his tenure, the magazine was redesigned and moved from a quarterly to a bimonthly schedule. He briefly served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he taught a seminar on international relations. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International, and a weekly columnist for Newsweek. In August 2010 it was announced that he was moving from Newsweek to Time magazine, to serve as a contributing editor and columnist. He also writes a fortnightly column for the Washington Post.

He has been published on a variety of subjects for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, "The New Republic" and, for a brief period, as a wine columnist for the web magazine Slate.

Zakaria is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1998), The Future of Freedom (Norton, 2003), and The Post-American World (2008); he has also co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books). His last two books have both been New York Times bestsellers, and have been translated into over 25 languages.

Zakaria was a news analyst with ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos (2002–2007) where he was a member of the Sunday morning roundtable. He hosted the weekly TV news show, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS (2005–2008). His weekly show, Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square) premiered on CNN in June 2008. It airs twice weekly in the United States and four times weekly on CNN International, reaching over 200 million homes.

He was briefly suspended in August 2012 while Time and CNN investigated an allegation of plagiarism involving an August 20 Zakaria column on gun control with similarities to a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore. In a statement issued on the CNN Global Public Square website, Zakaria apologized "unreservedly," saying that he had made "a terrible mistake," though not plagiarism. Six days later, after a review of his research notes and years of prior commentary, Time and CNN reinstated Zakaria. Time described the incident as "isolated" and "unintentional"; and CNN said, “We found nothing that merited continuing the suspension."