The New Republic before becoming president of The Atlantic Monthly. He simultaneously served as executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report between 1984 and 1986. From 1987 until 1993, Glassman was part owner and editor of Roll Call. He and his partner, Arthur Levitt Jr., sold the company to The Economist. In 2000 he founded Tech Central Station (now TCS Daily), an online magazine. Between 1993 and 2004, he wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post business section and the International Herald Tribune. Glassman has also worked in television. He was moderator of CNN's "Capital Gang Sunday" from 1995 to 1998. During this time he also hosted PBS's weekly "TechnoPolitics". From February 2010 to June 2012, he hosted "Ideas in Action", a weekly PBS series on public policy issues. From 1996 to 2008, Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. While there, from 2005 to 2007, he founded and served as editor in chief of The American, the American Enterprise Institute's bimonthly magazine of business and economics. In 2003 Glassman served on the U.S. government's Advisory Board on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. From June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), directing all nonmilitary, taxpayer–funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa). On December 11, 2007, Glassman was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace Karen Hughes as the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.[2] He served in the position from June 2008 to January 2009, leading the governmentwide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was bringing new Internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign publics, an approach he christened "Public Diplomacy 2.0". In an interview in 2009, he put forward a case that in the long run the Iraq War will prove to have been a positive decision, saying that it will be ultimately "beneficial to the war of ideas in the sense that a functioning democracy that we hope will be stable and prosperous now exists in the Middle East, and is showing other nations and other people what a democracy looks like." Newsweek said about him: "James K. Glassman, as they say in Washington, gets it.