Laurel Leff is Professor Emerita of Journalism at Northeastern University. Her book, Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life and Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe (Yale University Press), was a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award. Her previous book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper (Cambridge University Press), was chosen as the Best Media History Book of 2005 by the American Journalism Historians’ Association and Best History Book of 2005 by ForeWord Reviews. Leff has a master’s in the study of law from Yale University and a master’s in communications from the University of Miami. She received an A.B. from Princeton University with a major in the School of Public and International Affairs. She was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Miami Herald and an editor with American Lawyer Media Inc. and The Hartford Courant.
