Amitabh Pal, Managing Editor
Amitabh Pal has written several articles for the magazine. His feature on pacifist Abdul Ghaffar Khan, "Frontier Gandhi", appeared in the February 2002 issue and was republished by the Utne magazine, and his article on the call center industry in India, "Indian by Day, American by Night" appeared in the August 2004 issue. He has also done interviews for The Progressive, including of John Kenneth Galbraith in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev in the December 2003 issue, and Shirin Ebadi in the September 2004 issue. Prior to becoming Managing Editor, Pal was the Editor of the Progressive Media Project, an op-ed service affiliated with The Progressivethat sends out commentaries to approximately 350 daily newspapers. His op-eds have been published in several newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Houston Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Miami Herald. He has appeared on several radio stations based all over the United States and in Europe. His articles have been featured in college and school textbooks in the United States and Australia. Pal was the Editor of the Progressive Media Project from November 1997 till March 2003. He joined as Associate Editor of the Project in February 1997. He earlier did a stint as Municipal Editor with the State Port Pilot in Southport, N.C. Pal has a Master's in Political Science, specializing in international relations, from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. He has a Master's in Journalism from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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