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Jacob Sullum
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Sullum is a native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Sullum"s work in his weekly column have appeared in newspapers all across the United States, such as the New York Post and the Chicago-Sun Times. Other works of his have appeared in a number of other publications, which include The Wall Street Journal, United States of America Today, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Cigar Aficionado, and National Review, among many others
Sullum is also a frequent guest on many television and radio networks.
He has appeared on Fox News Channel, Cable News Network, The O"Reilly Factor, Hardball, Paula Zahn Now, The Charlie Rose Show, and National Public Radio while also speaking at the International Conference on Drug Policy Reform and the Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. When Sullum first joined Reason in 1989, he was an assistant editors
He eventually worked his way up to becoming an associate editor and managing editors He previously worked as an editor for National Review and a reporter for the News and Courier/Evening Post in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sullum obtained his degree from Cornell University, where he majored in economics and psychology.
During his time in schools, he was an editor and columnist for The Cornell Daily Sun. He is a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. Sullum is married and together they have three daughters, three cats, and one dog.
The family resides in Dallas, Texas.
Achievements
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Over the span of his career, Sullum"s work has won a handful of awards which include: Thomas S. Szasz Award – 2004 Sullum won the Keystone Press Award for investigative reporting – 1988 First Prize in the Felix Morley Memorial Journalism Competition – 1991 National Magazine Award for his Reason cover story about treating pain – 1998 Drug Policy Alliance"s Edward M. Brecher Award for Achievement in the Field of Journalism – 2005 Won first place for commentary or feature in the Southern California Journalism Awards for "Thank Deng Xiaoping for Little Girls" – 2007.
Politics
He focuses most of his writings on shrinking the realm of politics and expanding individual choice. He was interviewed in the 2004 documentary Super Size Maine.
