Америкалық журналист Джон Марион Тирни өмірбаяны

American journalist

John Marion Tierney (born March 25, 1953) is an American journalist and a contributing editor to City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's quarterly publication. Previously he had been a reporter and columnist at the New York Times for three decades since 1990. A self described contrarian, Tierney is a critic of aspects of environmentalism, the "science establishment," and big government,

Tierney was born in 1953 outside Chicago, and grew up in "the Midwest, South America and Pittsburgh".

After graduating college, Tierney was a newspaper reporter for four years, first at the Bergen Record in New Jersey and then at the Washington Star. Starting in 1980, he spent ten years in magazine journalism writing for such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Esquire, Health, National Geographic Traveler, New York, Newsweek, Outside, Rolling Stone. Tierney writes a science column, "Findings", for the Times. He previously wrote the TierneyLab blog for the Times. In 2005 Tierney began to write for the Times Op Ed page and as of 2015 his writings appeared in both the Times Op Ed and "Findings" science column. He also writes for the conservative City Journal. and in that same year started featuring recreational mathematics problems, often curated by Pradeep Mutalik in his New York Times TierneyLab blog. In 2010, Tierney retired from writing the blog, and Mutalik continued it under a new name (NumberPlay). In time, Gary Antonick took that over until he retired it in October 2016.