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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week magazine, a digest of national, international, and financial news and opinion. Since the magazine's launch in 2001, he has waded through media coverage of current events and boiled down each week's developments to the essentials. His work has included in-depth briefings on everything from the housing boom to factional strife in Iraq to the rise of Wal-Mart.

Maass was previously a producer for FOX News, where he coordinated the network's coverage of the Cuban side of the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez and surveyed the damage from storms across the southeastern U.S. He produced dispatches for many of the channel's programs, and worked on the network's news Web site as national and business editor.

Maass began his career in Florida as a newspaper reporter. After taking a two-year detour to earn a master's degree, he signed on with The Miami Herald. One of his duties was covering the Little Haiti section of Miami, a job that took him to Haiti after that nation's military overthrew then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. There, he uncovered a smuggling network that helped the military regime skirt a broad embargo enforced by the U.S.

After a year, Maass left the paper and began freelancing from Port-au-Prince. Over the next two years his work appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, and the Associated Press, as well as on CBS Radio. He also contributed reporting to award-winning coverage on ABC News and in The Miami Herald.

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