Paul Kleyman is the National Coordinator of the Journalists Network on Generations (JGN), the group he co-founded in 1993. A writer, speaker and journalism educator on ageism and generational issues, he is the editor of JGN’s e-newsletter, Generations Beat Online (GBONews.org), networked to more than a 1,000 authors and journalists. As head of JGN, he has also partnered since 2009 with the Gerontological Society of America and is Senior Advisor for the two groups’ Journalists in Aging Fellows Program. 

Since 2009, Paul has worked with leading organizations in journalism and gerontology with support from major foundations as the editorial director of journalism fellowship programs to educate working reporters in covering issues in aging. Those programs have raised more than $2.25 million in nonprofit grants to train nearly 200 working reporters in the coverage of aging. The projects have generated more than 900 articles in English, many of them also linking to their ethnic-media versions in Spanish, Chinese, Korean and other languages.

Paul directed the Elders Newsbeat at New America Media/Pacific News Service for 9 years until 2017, and prior to that edited Aging Today, newspaper of the American Society on Aging, for 20 years.

SPEAKER, SESSION ORGANIZER: Over the years, Paul has addressed a wide range of groups, either individually or as the organizer of expert panels. Some of them are:

• The Association of Health Care Journalists
• Gerontological Society of America
• Silicon Valley Boomer Business Summit
• Society for Professional Journalists (Northern California)
• LeadingAge/American Association of Homes & Services for the Aging
• San Francisco’s Institute on Aging
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (UC Berkeley)
• Grantmakers in Aging
• Stanford University Medical School
• University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication
• AARP Foundation.

Paul also testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, at its hearing on “The Image of Aging in the Media and Marketing” (September 4, 2002).

FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR: Paul Kleyman’s byline has appeared in a wide range of print and online publications, such as: Huffington Post, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Alternet, Truthout, AARP Bulletin, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

WIDELY QUOTED: Paul has been quoted in innumerable media outlets, such as The New York Times, Reuters News Service, Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, and local news media from the Tampa Tribune to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to the Orange County (Calif.) Register.

BOOK CHAPTERS: Since the publication of his book Senior Power — among the earliest trade-press books on the aging of America — Paul has written book chapters or had his work described in numerous volumes:

• The Elderly: Current Controversies (Gale, 2011);
• Longevity Rules: How to Age Well Into the Future (Eskaton, 2010);
• Turning Silver Into Gold by Dr. Mary S. Furlong (Financial Times Press, 2007);
• Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging (Macmillan, 2002);
• Encyclopedia of Aging (Springer Publishing, 1995 and 2001 editions);
• Healthy Aging: Challenges and Solutions, edited by Ken Dychtwald (Aspen, 1999);
• Life in an Older America, edited by Robert N. Butler, MD, et al, (Century Foundation Press, 1999).

Awards & HONORS:

• Influencer in Aging: Paul was named one of 50 major “Influencers in Aging” for 2016, by PBS’s Next Avenue website
• Excellence in Reporting Award, California Elder Justice Coalition’s, 2016
• Age Boom Academy Fellow, Columbia University School of Journalism and Butler Center on Aging
• Distinguished Service to Journalism Award, 2009, from the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California)
• Health Journalism Fellow, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, 2010.

Previously, Paul was also appointed as a National Delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Aging, where he was one of two journalists asked to serve in that capacity. (The other was ABC-TV’s Hugh Downs.) Later Paul covered the 2005 and 2015 White House Conferences.

ADVISORY POSITIONS: Paul currently he serves as a volunteer Advisory Board Member to the National Institute on Aging-funded Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research and as a Board Member of the Legacy Film Festival on Aging.

Paul Kleyman lives in San Francisco, and he’s a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism (1967).