Background
Harrop, Froma was born on March 18, 1950 in New York City. Daughter of Samuel and Esther (Paderofsky) Joselow.
Harrop, Froma was born on March 18, 1950 in New York City. Daughter of Samuel and Esther (Paderofsky) Joselow.
Bachelor, New York University, 1972.
She is best known for her bi-weekly syndicated column which appears in about 200 news outlets including the Seattle Times, Newsday, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, Detroit News, and Real Clear Politics and The Providence Journal. She is represented by Creators Syndicate Incorporated. in Los Los Angeles Media Matters ranks her column 20th nationally in total readership and 14th in large newspaper concentration.
Born in New York City, Harrop was raised in suburban Long Island.
After graduating from New York University, she worked on the financial desk at Reuters, covering business and the Federal Reserve. Harrop later became a business editor for The New York Times News Service.
She returned to her reporting roots as a business writer for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and subsequently joined the Journal’s editorial board, where she was a member until 2013. Harrop currently resides in Providence and New York City.
Harrop has been a guest on Public Broadcasting Service, Fox News, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, National Public Radio and many other television and radio stations.
Specific appearances include The Editor Schultz Show on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and Public Broadcasting Service’s White House Chronicles and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Harrop has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and Institutional Investor. She is also a contributor to The Progressive Populist.
Her columns have been published in several book anthologies.
Harrop is a past president of the Association of Opinion Journalists, formerly known as the National Conference of Editorial Writers. While she was president, the organization started a venture called the Civility Project, aimed at raising the quality of public discourse.
She was criticized for her position in 2011 in the Wall Street Journal, because she denounced the Tea Party movement as "economic terrorists" in one of her columns. She also participated in a parody interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart based on the controversy.
Harrop has rejected the assumption that calling Tea Party members "economic terrorists" during the debt ceiling crisis was uncivil.
She further argued that the Wall Street Journal was manufacturing a controversy to divert Tea Party anger at its own labeling of the activists as "hobbits.".
Member Providence Committee for Foreign Relations, Providence Art Club.
Married David Cole Harrop, December 15, 1989 (December October 1993).