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Jaroff joined Time Inc. in New York as an editorial trainee for LIFE
magazine
in 1951 and became a LIFE reporter later that year. In 1954 he became a LIFE
correspondent, first in Detroit and then in Chicago. In 1958 he moved to
TIME
magazine and remained in the Chicago bureau as a correspondent, with a brief
stint in Los Angeles, until he was named Detroit bureau chief in December
1960.
In 1964 Jaroff returned to New York as a contributing editor of TIME in the
Business section. In 1966 he was made an associate editor and became TIME's
chief science writer, writing all TIME cover stories of the U.S. space and
moon
landing program through 1969. In 1970 he was appointed a senior editor and,
as
such, edited nearly all of TIME's back-of-the-book sections including
Sports,
Science, Behavior, The Sexes, Medicine and Environment.
TIME science articles written or edited by Jaroff have won a number of
awards.
His stories on black holes and Richard Leakey won first prize and honorable
mention, respectively, from American Association for the Advancement of
Science
for the best science stories in 1978. A 1975 cover story on the brain and a
1988 cover story on viruses won top journalism awards from the American
Medical
Association. His 1991 cover "Allergies" won the top award from the
American
College of Alergy and Immunology.
In April 1980, Jaroff became the founding managing editor of DISCOVER, the
newsmagazine of science. During his more than four years at the helm of
DISCOVER, articles edited by Jaroff won the American Institute of Physics
Award
twice. He is also author of The New Genetics (Whittle
Communications;
1991) which is about the Human Genome Project and its impact on medicine.
A native of Detroit, Jaroff graduated in 1950 with degrees in electrical
engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, where he was
managing editor of the Michigan Daily. Following graduation, he
worked
briefly for the technical magazine Material & Methods before
joining
Time Inc.
Jaroff and his wife, Mary Kay Moran, live in East Hampton, N.Y., and
Manhattan.
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