Thomas B. Edsall

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Thomas Byrne Edsall
Born (1941-08-22) August 22, 1941 (age 83)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality United States
Occupation Journalist, Author, Professor
Known for Author, academic

Thomas Byrne Edsall (born August 22, 1941) is an American journalist and academic, best known for his weekly opinion column for The New York Times online[1] and for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post.[2]

Life and career

From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity.[3] In 2011, he became a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times.[4] Previously, he covered national politics for the Washington Post from 1981 to 2006 after covering politics for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal.[4] He was the political editor of the Huffington Post from 2007 to 2009,[5] a correspondent for The New Republic from 2006 to 2013 and for the National Journal from 2006 to 2007.[2] In November and December 2006, Edsall was a guest columnist for the print edition of the New York Times Op-Ed page.[6][7]

Edsall was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Linn Edsall and Katherine Byrne.[8] He attended Brown University and received his B.A. from Boston University in 1966. He is married and lives with his wife, Mary (daughter of Karl Deutsch), in New York and Washington, D.C.,[8] with whom he co-authored the book Chain Reaction.[9]

Awards and fellowships

  • Awarded Shapiro Fellowship, https://smpa.gwu.edu/shapiro-fellow-thomas-b-edsall, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University (2015)
  • Markwell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology (2014) www.ispp.org/awards/markwell

2014 Thomas B. Edsall, Columbia University, United States;

Bibliography

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References

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External links

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  1. http://www.nytimes.com/column/thomas-b-edsall
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  3. http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/system/documents/418/original/edsall_2014.pdf
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Thomas B. Edsall". New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
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