Lionel Beehner

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Freelance Writer/Op-Ed Instructor
Location New York, United States
Introduction Lionel Beehner is formerly a senior writer for the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote about Iraq, Iran, and the former Soviet Union. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The New Republic Online, the Guardian Online, Foreign Policy, Slate, Russia Journal, Kiev Post, Seed, New York, and Worth Magazine. His commentary has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, CNN International, BBC Radio, CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, CBC, Bloomberg TV, and Voice of America, as well as in publications like the New York Times Magazine, Washington Times, Newsweek International, Weekly Standard, and San Francisco Chronicle. He currently teaches Op-Ed and Political Writing at Mediabistro.com. He was the 2006 recipient of a German Marshall Fund journalism fellowship for a research project on post-Soviet youth movements in Ukraine and Belarus. He is a graduate of Holy Cross College and holds a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.