BOB HERBERT

BACKGROUND INFO

• Born March 7, 1945
• Raised in Brooklyn and Jersey City as a kid
• Served in Korea for the US army
• Got his bachelors in journalism at Empire State college

EARLY CAREER

• He began his career as a reporter with The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., in 1970.
• He became its night city editor in 1973.
• Left to work at the Daily News in New York

MID CAREER

• He had worked as a reporter and editor at The Daily News from 1976 until 1985.
• In 1990, Mr. Herbert was a founding panelist of "Sunday Edition," a weekly discussion program on WCBS-TV
• 1991-1993 he worked for NBC reporting for the "Today Show" and the "NBC Nightly News"

LATER CAREER

• Joined The New York Times in 1993
• Was an Op-Ed Columnist who ran a twice a week column
• His topics of choice were Politics, Social trends, and urban affairs
• Gained popularity through his writings about middle-east conflict and 9/11
• Also wrote about social trends such as NFL scandals and the popularity of Rap

AWARDS

• Meyer Berger Award for coverage of New York City
• American Society of Newspaper Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing
• David Nyhan Prize from Harvard for excellence in political journalism
• Ridenhour Courage Prize for the “fearless articulation of unpopular truths.”

QUOTES BY AND ABOUT BOB

• “It's difficult to do justice to the problems ... in 700 words.”
• “Call it the trillion dollar war.”
• "The man is basically just a predictable liberal softie." T.A. Frank on Bob Herbert
• "And Bob Herbert's great. He's the Daily News," - Jerry Sienfield

LINKS

• http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/HERBERT-BIO.html
• http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1025
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Herbert