James Warren (journalist)

James C. Warren (born January 4, 1953) is an American journalist, currently the Washington Bureau chief for the New York Daily News. He previously served as a founder of the Chicago News Cooperative and wrote the its twice-weekly column in the Chicago edition of the New York Times. He was the managing editor at the Chicago Tribune until he left the paper in 2008. He was the Tribune′s Washington bureau chief from 1993 to 2001, and he appeared for three years on CNN's "Capital Gang Sunday" and regularly on "The McLaughlin Group. He was Chicago editor for the Daily Beast and has written regularly for the Huffington Post and Atlantic Monthly, as well as for Vanity Fair. He appears regularly on MSNBC and Al Jazeera America.

Born in New York City and the son of a stockbroker, Warren was educated at Collegiate School, an independent college preparatory school in New York City, followed by Amherst College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English, in 1974. He later earned a master's degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Warren began his journalism career in the mid-1970s working as a reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. In 1977, he joined the financial section of the Chicago Sun-Times, where he worked as a business reporter, a general assignment reporter, a legal affairs reporter and a labor reporter.

In 1984, Warren joined the Chicago Tribune as its labor and legal affairs writer. He later became the paper's media writer.

In mid-1992, Warren was named editor of the Tribune′s Tempo lifestyle section.

In mid-December 1993, Warren was chosen to become the Tribune′s Washington, D.C. bureau chief. Almost immediately after arriving in town, Warren attracted attention with his brash talk. "I have absolutely no desire to make this a long-term thing," he told the Chicago Reader in December 1992. "I have no desire to be there in five or ten years as part of the Gridiron Show, prancing around onstage, singing to the president, or whatever the fuck they do."

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