Larry Kahaner
Larry Kahaner is an American journalist, author, ghostwriter and licensed private investigator. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and now lives in McLean, Virginia.
His books include:
- Competitive Intelligence (Simon & Schuster), ISBN 978-0684844046
- AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War (Wiley), ISBN 978-0470168806
- Values, Prosperity and the Talmud (Wiley), ISBN 978-0471444411
- Cults That Kill (Warner Books), ISBN 978-0446513753
- On The Line (Warner Books), ISBN 978-0446513135
He has received the Jesse M. Neal National Business Journalism Award, [1] the American Society of Business Publication Editors Regional Gold Award [2] and an Associated Press Newswriting Award. He holds a Master of Science in journalism from Boston University. A former BusinessWeek Correspondent, his work has appeared in the Washington Post, [3] Los Angeles Times [4] and Information Week.[5]
As a reporter for the Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer in 1980, he wrote the first in-depth exposé of the textile mills in the city and how they caused byssinosis, also known as 'brown lung disease,' in workers. Byssinosis is caused by inhaling textile particles. For years, workers were reluctant to complain about the illness for fear of losing their jobs. The mills exerted great economic power including owing an adjoining town, Bibb City, owned by Bibb Manufacturing Company. When the series was released, many of the newspaper's street boxes were looted of their copies. The series led to the Georgia legislature enacting laws to allow workers with byssinosis to file workers' compensation claims for the first time. The reportage also garnered several awards including an Associated Press Newswriting Award – Public Service. [6]
Kahaner arguably wrote the first, nationally-syndicated newspaper articles about frequent incidents of sexual harassment of female soldiers at Fort Benning at a time when Pentagon officials said that such cases were rarely reported or brushed aside.[7]
During the early to mid 1980s, Kahaner covered the telecommunications industry as it underwent a massive change from a regulated business, dominated by AT&T, to a deregulated industry that brought in new players and new technologies. As a founding editor of Communications Daily and later as a Washington correspondent for Business Week, in addition to freelancing for other magazines and newspapers, he wrote some of the earliest articles about the new telecommunications landscape,[8][9][10][11] cell phones,[12][13][14][15] email,[16][17] and the internet, [18][19][20] culminating in two books, "The Phone Book," with co-author Alan Green (Penguin, 1983) and "On the Line: The Men of MCI – Who Took on AT&T, Risked Everything and Won" (Warner Books, 1986).
References
- ↑ "51st Neal Awards". American Business Media.
- ↑ "FleetOwner garners "Azbee" editorial awards". Fleet Owner.
- ↑ "Weapon Of Mass Destruction". Washington Post.
- ↑ "Why paying truckers by the mile is unfair and dangerous". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "1940 Census Data Swamps Servers". Information Week.
- ↑ "Brown Lung" series, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, January 4,7,8,9,10,17,1980; March 7,10,23,1980; April 3,4,16,1980; June 15,17,23,1980.
- ↑ "Benning Women say it's Gone Beyond the 'Hey Baby' Stage," Knight-Ridder News Service, August 5, 1979.
- ↑ "After the Breakup, Some Surprises," Channels, Jan/Feb 1986;
- ↑ "Changing Phone Habits," BusinessWeek, September 5, 1983;
- ↑ "Farewell to Plain Old Telephone Service, Consumers Digest, Nov/Dec 1983;
- ↑ "How Bill McGowan Broke All the Rules and Won," Washingtonian, March, 1986;
- ↑ "The Cellular Radio Duels Begin," BusinessWeek, March 1, 1982;
- ↑ "A Bell Lobby With a New Sound," BusinessWeek, March 15, 1982;
- ↑ "Cellular Radio Breaks Communications Log Jam," highTechnology, Jan/Feb, 1981;
- ↑ "Cellular Transforms Car Radio Field," International Herald Tribune, May 29, 1984.
- ↑ "Business Mail Goes Electronic," highTechnology, Jan/Feb 1982;
- ↑ "MCI's Newest Strategy: Shooting for a Broader Spectrum – Hotter Long-Distance Competitions from AT&T Pushes MCI into Electronic Mail," BusinessWeek, October 10, 1983.
- ↑ Wiring the Brains into Buildings, BusinessWeek, September 27, 1982;
- ↑ "Content Matters Most in Search Engine Placement," Information Week, June 12, 2000;
- ↑ "Carnivore: Is the FBI Monitoring Your Email?," Information Week, April 23, 2001;