On The Record: Meet Ronan Farrow

Ronan Farrow

While flipping the channels searching for afternoon cooking shows, I lingered on MSNBC long enough to check out the show's host. He was young, blond, handsome, and well spoken. I hadn't noticed him before and it made me wonder who he was and how he got his own show. Before I could check him out, I saw an article in TV Week's The Wrap titled "Ronan Farrow Not having a Very Good Summer on MSNBC". It seems that since the show's February debut through August 8, it ranked third in the cable news competition for the 1 p.m. weekly time slot. My interest grew and I immediately searched for more information about Ronan. Here's what I found out.

Woody Allen-Ronan Farrow-Frank Sinatra

Ronan Farrow is the son of actress Mia Farrow and either filmmaker Woody Allen or Frank Sinatra. (No DNA testing has been done to determine Ronan's paternity. He is estranged from Allen.) His maternal grandmother is actress Maureen O'Sullivan. At age 26, he is an American activist, journalist, lawyer, former U. S. government advisor and host of "Ronan Farrow Daily" on MSNBC. He graduated from Bard College at the age of 15 and is the school's only Rhodes Scholar. In 2009, he  graduated from Yale Law School and later became a member of the New York Bar.

Wikipedia details Farrow's impressive and diverse career.
 

Ronan and mother Mia Farrow

During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow interned at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel at the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, focusing on international human rights law. 

Hillary Clinton and Ronan Farrow

In 2009, Farrow joined the Obama administration with his appointment as Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011 at the age of 23, Farrow was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues and Director of the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues 

He has written essays, op-eds, and other pieces for The Guardian, Foreign Policy magazine, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other periodicals. In October 2013, Penguin Press acquired Farrow's book, Pandora's Box: How American Military Aid Creates America's Enemies, scheduling it for 2015 publication.In 2008 Farrow was awarded Refugees International's McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award for "extraordinary service to refugees and displaced people." In 2012, he was ranked number one in "Law and Policy" on Forbes Magazine's "30 Under 30" Most Influential People. He was also awarded an honorary Doctorate by Dominican University of California in 2012.

Since Farrow is often considered the best connected young man on the planet, I thought he was someone you'd want to know.

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Forbes' World's Most Powerful Women

 

Forbes has posted its10th edition of its list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women. The Forbes list contains political leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and CEOs. The top 100 women are ranked based on money, their media presence, and impact over the last 12 months.

This year the list features nine heads of state who run nations with a combined GDP of $11.8 trillion. The 24 corporate CEOs control $893 billion in annual revenues, and 16 of the women here founded their own companies, including two of the three new billionaires to the list. This year’s class has 14 billionaires valued in excess of $82 billion.

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