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Walter Shapiro is an American journalist, writer and columnist.
Shapiro was born in New York City and was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut. [1] He graduated from Brien McMahon High School in 1965. [1]
Shapiro attended the University of Michigan, where he was an editor of The Michigan Daily ; he earned his B.A. in history in 1970. [1] Shapiro completed post-graduate work at the university in European history; as a graduate student, he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, finishing second in a six-way Democratic primary election. [1]
Shapiro began his journalism career as Washington reporter for Congressional Quarterly (1969 to 1970). [1] He has since written for a number of publications, including USA Today (serving as twice-weekly "Hype & Glory" columnist starting in 1995; The Washington Post , Time (senior writer from 1987 to 1993, covering Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign), Newsweek (political writer, 1983 to 1987), Esquire (monthly "Our Man in the White House" column, 1993 to 1996), the Washington Monthly (editor, 1972 to 1976), Salon.com, and Politics Daily . [1] [2] Shapiro has also written for The American Prospect [3] and been a columnist for Yahoo News [4] and Roll Call . [5] Shapiro won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award in the category of Online Column Writing (Independent) for his piece "The Societal Costs of Our Shrill, Hyperactive and Partisan Media Culture," published in Politics Daily. [6]
Shapiro was press secretary to U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall from 1977 to 1978. [1] He was a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter in 1979. [1] [7] [8] He has covered nine United States presidential elections. [2]
Shapiro completed a fellowship in Japan with the Japan Society and has been a member of the Council on Ideas of the Gihon Foundation since 1992. [1]
Shapiro is a fellow at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. [2] Shapiro is also a lecturer in political science at Yale University. [4]
Shapiro has written One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In (PublicAffairs, 2003) and Hustling Hitler: How a Jewish Vaudevillian Fooled the Fuhrer (Blue Rider Press, 2016). [2] [1]
Shapiro performed stand-up comedy for many years, and in 1998 The Times of London described him as "one of Manhattan's leading political satirists." [9] His columns have included satire as well. [10]
Shapiro is married to magazine writer Meryl Gordon and splits his time between New York City and Washington, D.C. [1]
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The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and in parts of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published.
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films.
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John Franklin Carter a.k.a. Jay Franklin a.k.a. Diplomat a.k.a. Unofficial Observer (1897–1967) was an American journalist, columnist, biographer and novelist. He notably wrote the syndicated column, "We the People", under his pen name Jay Franklin. He wrote over 30 books on a variety of subjects, including his detective novels about the character Dennis Tyler. In his column, he was one of the few who predicted Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential election.
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Marianne Means was an American journalist and syndicated political columnist based in Washington, D.C. who, for many years, was a White House correspondent. She started her career as a reporter and advanced to the role of a copy editor for a newspaper in Nebraska for a couple of years. She then relocated to Washington, D.C. where she took a position as the chief editor for a Virginia newspaper and supervised a staff of men for two years. She later transferred to Hearst Newspapers where she was a Washington bureau correspondent. She covered the reporting of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. Then she reported full-time at the White House and was the first female reporter to do this. There were rumors she was one of Kennedy's many lovers. She covered Kennedy's assassination and the transition to the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. As a political reporter for The New York Times she reported on every presidential campaigns from Kennedy to Bill Clinton. She was an international commentator and television personality.
Louis Martin Kohlmeier Jr. was an American author, journalist, and educator. He wrote for The Wall Street Journal and later for the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate; still later, he taught at American University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1965.
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