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Carey Winfrey became editor of Smithsonian magazine in July 2001. In addition to magazines, his 40+ year career in journalism has embraced television and newspapers. It began in 1967, when he graduated with high honors from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and was selected as an intern to the Public Broadcast Laboratory. Mr. Winfrey took his fellowship to Hong Kong, where he wrote articles for the Far Eastern Economic Review and worked as a reporter and producer for HK-TVB, the Crown Colony’s then-fledgling wireless TV station. Returning to the U.S. early in 1968, he joined Time magazine, where he reported and wrote the Press and other back-of-the-book sections for more than three years. He left Time for public television’s WNET/13 in 1971 to produce “Behind the Lines,” a TV-magazine about journalism that was distributed nationally, starting in 1972, by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). "Behind the Lines" won the 1973-74 Emmy Award for “Best Regularly Scheduled Magazine-Type” program and, in 1974, a Don Hollenbeck Award from New York University’s Department of Journalism. In 1975, Mr. Winfrey became executive producer of “Assignment America,” a weekly PBS series featuring Maya Angelou, Doris Kearns (Goodwin), Studs Terkel and George Will. He became executive producer of WNET’s local news and public affairs in 1976. But in 1977, restless with administrative duties, he joined the New York Times as a reporter on the Metropolitan Desk. Within the year, he was awarded Columbia University’s Meyer Berger Award for Distinguished Reporting for “his witty and elegant stories of New York life, written with a perception equal to his style.” After covering the People’s Temple mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978, he was posted to Nairobi, Kenya to cover sub-Saharan Africa; there, he covered wars, coups, the creation of an independent Zimbabwe and the ouster of Uganda dictator Idi Amin. Spurred by a low-grade mid-life crisis, Winfrey left the Times in 1980 to write a screenplay for an independent movie producer. He was lured back to gainful employment in 1981 by an offer to produce “Mixed Bag,” a video arts magazine, for CBS Cable. In 1982, he joined CBS Magazines as director of video development. He became editor of CBS’s Cuisine magazine in 1983; it was a National Magazine Award finalist for General Excellence in 1984. Following CBS’s purchase of 12 special-interest magazines from Ziff-Davis in 1985, Mr. Winfrey became Vice President, Editorial Director of an expanded CBS Magazines, from which position, in 1988, he launched Memories magazine as its founding editor. Memories was named Advertising Age’s “Best New Magazine of 1989.” In 1990, Mr. Winfrey was appointed editor of American Health, a Reader’s Digest Association publication. After six years as its editor, he left American Health in 1996 to become director of the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. In 1997, he departed the groves of academe to become an assistant managing editor at People magazine. It was in that position that he was tapped to be only the third editor of Smithsonian in its three decade long history. Smithsonian was a 2007 National Magazine Award finalist in the Essay category. A former director of the American Society of Magazine Editors, Winfrey is the author of Starts and Finishes, a memoir (E.P. Dutton 1975), and he has written scores of magazine articles for a wide variety of publications, including New York, Harpers and The New York Times Magazine He wrote the “Eye on Books” column for the Book of the Month Club News (1980) and the “Fine Lines” column for Parenting magazine (1887-89). He and the former Jane Keeney are the parents of 26-year-old twin sons, Graham and Wells. The Winfreys live in Washington, D.C. with their yellow lab retriever, Flora.