Osborn Elliott

[1] Newsweek's circulation doubled to three million issues during Elliott's tenure as editor, which narrowed the gap with Time.

His mother was a high-profile real estate agent in Manhattan, who had been actively involved with the American women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century.

[1] Elliott began his career in the news magazine publishing industry by joining The Journal of Commerce and then Time.

Elliott left Newsweek to take the deputy mayor position for an annual salary of $1 per year.

The Asia Society released a statement which called Elliott "one of the earliest practitioners of 'civic journalism' -- the deliberate focusing of the journalistic enterprise on urgent issues of public policy.

"[1] Elliott's victimization at the hands of the con artist David Hampton provided some of the basis for John Guare's drama Six Degrees of Separation.