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Doyle McManus
Born
Doyle Daniel McManus

(1953-05-05)May 5, 1953(age 71)[1]
Occupation(s)journalist and author
Notable credit(s)Los Angeles Times,PBS'sWashington Week,CBS'sFace the Nation,NPR'sWeekend Edition
SpousePaula Copeland McManus
Children3

Doyle McManus(born May 5, 1953)[1]is an American journalist, columnist (for theLos Angeles Times),[2][3]who appears often onPublic Broadcasting Service'sWashington Week.[4][5]

Early life[edit]

Doyle Daniel McManus is the first-born son of Lois Doyle and James R. McManus, who was aSan Franciscoadvertisingexecutive.[6][7]His younger brothers include Chris (born 1955)[8]and Reed (born 1956).[9]

He earned anA.B.inhistoryatStanford Universityin 1974, and was aFulbright scholarat the University of Brussels.[10][11]

Career[edit]

As anundergraduate,McManus worked on theStanford Daily.

He was a foreign correspondent for three years at theUnited Press International,beginning inBrussels.

He joined theLos Angeles Timesin 1978, reporting fromLos Angeles,theMiddle East,Central America,New York.He transferred to theTimes'sWashington, D.C.,bureau in 1983, where he covered theU.S. State Department,andWhite House.He succeededJack Nelsonas bureau chief in 1996.[4][5]After thirteen years as bureau chief, he reportedly told colleagues that he had "long ago asked for a new assignment."[12]In November 2008, the financially troubledTribune Companymade him acolumnistwhen it closed theLos Angeles Times'bureau in favor of a single Washington bureau for all its newspapers.[3]

Mr. McManus has written forForeign Policy,Time,Sports Illustrated,and theLondonDaily Express.He appears regularly on the PBS commentary programWashington Week.

He has covered everypresidential electionsince 1984.

In January 2008, he was a moderator atHillary ClintonandBarack Obama'spresidential primarydebate inLos Angeles.[13]

Memberships and awards[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Wright, Robin;Doyle McManus (1991-12-03).Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World.New York:Alfred A. Knopf.ISBN978-0-679-40708-9.
  • Mayer, Jane;Doyle McManus (1988).Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988.Boston, Massachusetts:Houghton Mifflin Company.ISBN978-0-395-45185-4.
  • McManus, Doyle (1981).Free at Last, the Complete Story of the Hostages' 444-Day Ordeal and the Secret Negotiations to Set Them Free(1st ed.). New York:Signet Books.ISBN978-0-451-11054-1.

Personal[edit]

McManus and his wife reside inBethesda, Maryland.[4][5]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ab"Doyle Daniel McManus, Born 05/05/1953 in California".CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.Retrieved15 December2020....siblings include Reed (born 1956), and Christopher (born 1955)
  2. ^ Kurtz, Howard(2009-04-28)."For the Media, 100-Days Story Represents the Perfect Swarm".The Washington Post.pp. C1, C6.Retrieved2009-04-28.We are slaves to news pegs, "says Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, which scooped the world by starting its pieces 10 days early." Since it's an arbitrary number, "he says," who's to say Day 90 isn't just as important? "McManus looked up the story he published onGeorge W. Bush's 100th day in office, when he credited the new president with "preaching a conciliatory message" and quoted a scholar as praising the administration's "astonishing professionalism." That experience, says McManus, was "sobering.
  3. ^ab Strupp, Joe(November 7, 2008)."'L.A. Times' D.C. Bureau Chief McManus Becomes Columnist ".Editor & Publisher.Nielsen Business Media.RetrievedApril 29,2009.Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus is leaving his post to become a Times Op-Ed columnist, the paper revealed in a release today.Document Number: A188862699.
  4. ^abcRatnesar, Romesh (July–August 1998)."On the Job with Doyle McManus".Stanford Magazine.Stanford Alumni Association. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-10-15.Retrieved2008-09-10.
  5. ^abcdefghij "Washington Week. Doyle McManus".Public Broadcasting Service.Archived fromthe originalon 2008-06-22.Retrieved2008-09-10.
  6. ^Speckmann, Maybelle (August 5, 1964)."Lois Leads A Model Life".Daily Independent Journal.San Rafael, California. p. 37.
  7. ^"MCMANUS, James R."San Francisco Chronicle.2008-08-10. p. Z-99. Archived fromthe originalon 2020-04-07.Retrieved2008-09-10.
  8. ^https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/christopher_james_mcmanus_born_1955_5607664[bare URL]
  9. ^"Reed McManus".The Sacramento Bee.January 15, 2016. p. A11.
  10. ^ab"FSI Stanford Advisory Board – FSI Stanford".Stanford University.Archived fromthe originalon 2007-10-12.Retrieved2008-09-07.
  11. ^abcdefg"Speaker Bios, UCLA Burkle Center".University of California, Los Angeles.Archived fromthe originalon June 5, 2011.Retrieved2008-09-10.
  12. ^ Kurtz, Howard(2008-01-29). "Media Notes".The Washington Post.pp. C1, C4.
  13. ^"Transcript: Democratic Debate in Los Angeles".The New York Times.Federal News Service. January 31, 2008. Archived fromthe originalon November 22, 2023.RetrievedApril 29,2009.
  14. ^ "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year".Hoover Institution.Archived fromthe originalon November 1, 2011.Retrieved2011-10-27.
  15. ^"Philip Merrill College of Journalism".University of Maryland. Archived fromthe originalon May 16, 2008.Retrieved2008-09-10.

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