| 词条 | Daniel Okrent |
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Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, for inventing Rotisserie League Baseball,[1] and for writing several books, such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition. In November 2011, Last Call won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. Early life and educationBorn to a Jewish family[2] in Detroit, Michigan, Okrent graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit[3] in 1965 and from the University of Michigan, where he worked on the university's student newspaper The Michigan Daily. CareerMost of his career has been spent as an editor, at such places as Alfred A. Knopf; Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich; Esquire Magazine; New England Monthly; Life Magazine; and Time, Inc. His book Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center (Viking, 2003) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. In October 2003, Okrent was named public editor for The New York Times following the Jayson Blair scandal. He held this position until May 2005. Okrent and Peter Gethers, having acquired the theatrical rights to the site and name of the web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, co-wrote and co-produced a revue of that name.[4] It opened at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan on May 20, 2012. On May 3, 2014, the University of Michigan awarded Okrent an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. Since 2017, Okrent has been listed on the Advisory Board of the Secular Coalition for America.[5] {{Anchor|Okrent's Law}} {{Anchor|Okrent's law}} Okrent's law{{See also|False balance|Journalistic objectivity|View from nowhere}}He formulated what has become known as "Okrent's law" in an interview comment he made about his new job. It states: "The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true", referring to the phenomenon of the press providing legitimacy to fringe or minority viewpoints in an effort to appear even-handed.[6][7][8][9] BaseballOkrent invented Rotisserie League Baseball, the best-known form of fantasy baseball, in 1979. The name comes from the fact that he proposed the idea to his friends while dining at La Rôtisserie Française restaurant in New York City. Okrent's team in the Rotisserie League was called the "Okrent Fenokees", a pun on the Okefenokee Swamp. He was one of the first two people inducted into the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame.[10] Okrent was still playing Rotisserie as of 2009 under the team name Dan Druffs. Despite having been credited with inventing fantasy baseball he has never been able to win a Rotisserie League. His exploits of inventing Rotisserie League Baseball were chronicled in Silly Little Game, part of the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series, in 2010.[11] Okrent is also credited with inventing the baseball stat, WHIP.[12] At the time he referred to it as IPRAT, signifying "Innings Pitched Ratio". In May 1981, Okrent wrote and Sports Illustrated published "He Does It by the Numbers".[13] This profile of the then-unknown Bill James launched James's career as baseball's foremost analyst.[14] In 1994, Okrent was filmed for his in-depth knowledge of baseball history for the Ken Burns documentary Baseball.[15] During the nine-part series, a red-sweater-wearing Okrent delivered a detailed analysis of the cultural aspects of the national pastime, including a comparison of the dramatic Game 6 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds to the conflict and character development in Russian novels. The Death of PrintIn the late 1990s, as editor of new media at Time Inc., Okrent wrote about the future of magazine publishing.[16] He believed that the advancement of digital technologies would make it easier for people to read newspapers, magazines and books online.[17] In late 1999, Okrent made a prediction about the future of print media in the Hearst New Media Lecture at the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University.[16] He told his audience: {{Quote|I believe they, and all forms of print, are dead. Finished. Over. Perhaps not in my professional lifetime, but certainly in that of the youngest people in this room. Remove the question mark from the title of this talk. The Death of Print, full stop.[18]}} Personal lifeOkrent has participated in LearnedLeague under the name "OkrentD".[19][20] Bibliography
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References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/sports/fantasy/index.ssf/2011/03/ready_for_your_fantasy_basebal.html|title=Ready for your fantasy baseball draft? Here are some simple rules to live by|last=Derry|first=Jim|date=March 28, 2011|work=The Times-Picayune|access-date= April 24, 2011}} 2. ^{{Cite web|last=Okrent |first=Daniel |authorlink= |title=Kvelling in Their Seats - A first-time producer on what it took to stage Old Jews Telling Jokes |publisher=New York Magazine|date=April 29, 2012|url=http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/old-jews-telling-jokes-2012-5/ |accessdate=}} 3. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,275003,00.html | work= Entertainment Weekly | title=Getting the 'Lowdown' | date= January 7, 2000}} 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Okrent|first1=Daniel|title=Kvelling in Their Seats|url=http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/old-jews-telling-jokes-2012-5/|website=New York Magazine|publisher=New York Magazine|accessdate=25 December 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.secular.org/board |title=Board |website=secular.org |publisher=Secular Coalition for America |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104233603/https://www.secular.org/board |archivedate=2017-01-04 |accessdate=2018-10-29}} 6. ^{{cite web| last1=Pearlman| first1=Jeff| author1link=Jeff Pearlman| title=Daniel Okrent| url=http://www.jeffpearlman.com/the-quaz-qa-daniel-okrent/| website=Jeff Pearlman| publisher=Jeff Pearlman| access-date= August 8, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106205742/http://www.jeffpearlman.com/the-quaz-qa-daniel-okrent/| archive-date= January 6, 2013| date= October 11, 2012}} 7. ^{{cite journal| title=The New Yorker| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAXkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+pursuit+of+balance+can+create+imbalance+because+sometimes+something+is+true%22| date= May 24, 2004| publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation| page=244| volume=80| series=Issues 1–10}} 8. ^{{cite book| last1=Hoffman| first1=Sam| last2=Spiegelman| first2=Eric| title=Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs| date=2010| publisher=Random House Publishing Group| isbn=9780345522450| page=198| edition=Trade Paperback}} 9. ^{{cite book| last1=Schwarz| first1=Daniel R.| author1link=Daniel R. Schwarz| title=Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times 1999-2009| date=2012| publisher= State University of New York Press| page=205| edition=Albany: Excelsior Editions| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_qGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA205| access-date= August 8, 2014| chapter=6 Counter-Reformation or the Way We Are (I)| oclc=702357541}} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.fsta.org/blog/hall-of-fame |title=Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame |website=fsta.org}} 11. ^{{cite web |url=http://30for30.espn.com/film/silly-little-game.html |title=30 for 30 |publisher=ESPN |accessdate=April 27, 2015}} 12. ^{{cite news |last=Di Fino |first=Nando |date=August 3, 2009 |title=Dan Okrent Invented WHIP Statistic, Fantasy Baseball |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204619004574318690805089868 |accessdate=2017-12-24}} 13. ^{{cite web |last=Okrent |first=Daniel |date=25 May 1981 |title=He Does It By The Numbers |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1124493/index.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813032532/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1124493/index.htm |website=sportsillustrated.cnn.com |publisher=Sports Illustrated |archivedate=2009-08-13 |accessdate=2017-12-24}} 14. ^{{cite book |last=Chafets |first=Ze'ev |date=2009 |title=Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |page=[//books.google.com/books?id=OEXDt0Os5aQC&pg=PA44 44] |isbn=9781596915459 |oclc=305422137}} 15. ^{{cite web |title=Dan Okrent: The Origins of Rotisserie Baseball – The Tenth Inning |url=http://www.pbs.org/video/the-tenth-inning-the-tenth-inning-interview-extras-rotisserie/ |website=pbs.org |accessdate=2017-12-24}} 16. ^1 {{cite journal |last=Lieb |first=Thom |date=March 2001 |title=Q. & A.: Breaking News |journal=The Journal of Electronic Publishing |volume=6 |issue=3 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0006.306?view=text;rgn=main |doi=10.3998/3336451.0006.306 |accessdate=2016-04-25}} 17. ^{{cite book|last1=Nayar|first1=Pramod K.|title=Virtual worlds: culture and politics in the age of cybertechnology|date=2004|publisher=Sage Publications|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780761932284|page=[//books.google.com/books?id=ksmGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 117]}} 18. ^{{cite web |last=Okrent |first=Dan |date=February 2000 |title=The Death of Print? |url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0002/okrent.htm |website=digitaljournalist.org |accessdate=2016-04-25}} 19. ^{{cite web |title=LL Profile: OkrentD |url=http://learnedleague.com/profiles.php?okrentd |publisher=LearnedLeague |accessdate=2014-10-16}} 20. ^{{cite web |last=Kushner |first=Adam B. |date=August 20, 2014 |title=The coolest, weirdest Internet community you'll never be able to join |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-coolest-weirdest-internet-community-youll-never-be-able-to-join/2014/08/20/3c3f565e-26eb-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html |website=washingtonpost.com |publisher=The Washington Post |accessdate=2017-12-24}} External links
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