Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18, 1949 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American journalist . He was editor-in-chief of the New York Times from 2003 to 2011 .
Life
Keller attended Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo . While at Pomona College , he began his journalism career by founding The Collage newspaper . After graduating from college, he became a reporter in Portland , Oregon for The Portland Oregonian in 1970 . In 1980 he went to the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington, DC and then to the Dallas Times Herald .
He joined the New York Times in 1984 and worked for them in Washington. In 1986 he became a reporter in Moscow and in 1988 he became head of the office there. In 1989 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reports from the Soviet Union . In 1992 he became the head of the newspaper in Johannesburg and remained so until 1995. In 1995 he became a foreign editor and in 1997 a managing editor . He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Advanced Management Program in 2000. In 2001 he became a columnist and senior writer . From July 2003 he was editor-in-chief of the New York Times.
On July 6, 2005, he defended Judith Miller in the case of the Plame affair .
At the beginning of July 2011, Keller announced his resignation on September 6, 2011; Successor was Jill Abramson . Keller continues to work for the company, including writing for the New York Times Magazine . Today (as of 2016) Keller is the editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project , a non-profit organization for journalism about criminal justice.
Works
- Tree Shaker: the story of Nelson Mandela ; Kingfisher, Boston 2008, ISBN 0-7534-5992-2 ; youth book
literature
- Bill Keller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2010 of November 9, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Bill Keller in the nndb (English)
- Biography at NYTimes
- Further biography at NYTimes ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Statement by Keller in the Plame affair
- WorldCat: Emma Gilbey (basement) , his wife
Individual evidence
- ^ Jill Abramson becomes "New York Times" editor- in- chief in: Spiegel Online from June 2, 2011
- ^ New York Times names first woman executive editor ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in: AFP from June 2, 2011
- ^ Bill Keller is editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project: Bill Keller - The Marshall Project. In: themarshallproject.org. Retrieved April 23, 2016 .
- ^ Tree shaker . Library of Congress catalog .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Bill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palo Alto , California |