Bill Keller ( born January 18, 1949 in New York [1] ) is an American journalist. In 2003-2011 chief editor of The New York Times [2] .
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| Place of Birth |  USA , New York |
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| Spouse | Emma Gilby (since 1999) |
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Biography and career
The son of George Keller .
He graduated from Pomona College of California and received a bachelor of arts degree. In July 2000, he attended a management course at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
He began his career in journalism in the newspaper The Oregonian , in Portland , Oregon , of which he was a reporter in 1970-1979. In 1980-1982, he wrote reviews in the political weekly Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and then worked for the Dallas Times Herald .
In 1984, he began working as a correspondent for The New York Times in Washington. In 1986-1991, the correspondent of this newspaper in the USSR , in 1989-1991 he headed its Moscow bureau. In 1989, for coverage of events in this country, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize [2] .
For three years since 1992, he worked in South Africa [2] . After returning to America he was appointed head of the international department of The New York Times. Since 1997, he was the outgoing editor of the publication, and in 2001 was appointed editor of the commentary department.
In July 2003, after a scandal and the dismissal of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, he headed the New York Times and worked in this position until September 2011 [2] , when he was replaced by Jill Abramson [3] .
Married to Emma Gilby [4] , who became famous as the author of the biography of Vinnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela . Has two daughters - Molly (~ 1995) and Alice (~ 2001) [5] , also has one more child.
Links
- ↑ Brief biography of Bill Keller
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Bill Keller's Biography on the pages of The New York Times
- ↑ Bill Keller on Lenta.ru
- ↑ Her mother, journalist Eleanor Gilby (nee Shatenstein, 1929-1983), was a cousin to the philologist and novelist E.M. Wolf , Emma Gilby herself was a second cousin of the sociolinguist W. Weinreich .
- ↑ Keller family story told by Emma Gilby