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JOHN TESSITORE

Senior Editor and Contributing Columnist, MaximsNews.com  JohnTessitore@MaximsNews.com

          John Tessitore began his career in academia, teaching English Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.  In 1980 he joined the staff of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York City with the title of Communications Director and Editor-in-Chief.  

For six years John served as editor of Worldview, an award-winning monthly magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, during which time he broke such major stories as famine in sub-Saharan Africa and the use of illegal pesticides on imported U.S. food stocks.  

He also covered extensively the “dirty wars” in Latin America, including a series of articles by Robert White, the former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador.  

One of his first acts as editor was to introduce a new column to the magazine—“U.N. Watch”—designed to bring his readers a monthly report of the goings-on at U.N. Headquarters.  

More than 30 years of Worldview have recently been made available online, and can be accessed at www.carnegiecouncil.org .

John left the Carnegie Council in 1986 to become Executive Director of Communications for the United Nations Association-USA, the nation's largest foreign policy organization.  

During this period he served as editor of the Association’s quarterly publication, The InterDependent, and worked extensively with the national and international media, U.S. Mission to the U.N., and senior U.N. staff.   

In 1995 John served as Executive Producer of the documentary film “In Search of Peace: 50 Years of the U.S. in the U.N.,” narrated by Paul Newman and shown on more than 600 Turner network stations nationwide.  

Writing in the New York Times, critic Walter Goodman called the film “a handy review of the love-hate-ignore relationship” between the U.S. and the world organization.

John has written and published extensively on topics ranging from Joseph Conrad to U.N. peacekeeping to the role of the media.  

John is perhaps best known to the U.N. community for his co-editorship (with the late Susan Woolfson, UNA’s long-time Managing Editor) of the annual Global Agenda:  Issues Before the United Nations General Assembly—used by thousands of students and diplomats alike. 

In 2002, after some 17 years with UNA-USA, John relocated with his wife and two daughters to his native Rhode Island to pursue new activities, including “Extreme Gardening.”   

He continues to write and to provide editing and communications services to a variety of clients, including the U.N. Office of Peacekeeping and the United Nations Development Programme. 

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