John Dickerson (journalist)
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| Born |
John Fredrick Dickerson July 6, 1968 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Education | Sidwell Friends School |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Moderator of Face The Nation CBS News Political Director |
John Frederick Dickerson (born July 6, 1968) is an American journalist.
Dickerson is the host of Face the Nation on CBS News, the political director of CBS News, and a political columnist for Slate magazine. Before hosting Face the Nation, he was the longtime Chief Political Correspondent at Slate. Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as their White House correspondent.
A native of Washington, D.C., Dickerson is a son of C. Wyatt Dickerson and Nancy Dickerson Whitehead. He has three sisters and one brother. He grew up in McLean, Virginia at Merrywood, a Georgian-style mansion high on a leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac River.
Dickerson graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1987 and holds a degree in English with Distinction from the University of Virginia. On Her Trail, Dickerson's book about his relationship with his late mother Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, a pioneering television newswoman, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. In a Washington Post review, staff writer Elsa Walsh called the book "riveting." Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as their White House correspondent.
Dickerson hosted Face the Nation three times in 2009 and was appointed Political Director of CBS News in November 2011. He appeared each Wednesday on The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio, until the show ended in 2007, and was also a frequent guest on NPR's Day to Day. He appears on PBS's Washington Week and the Slate Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. Dickerson is also the host of Whistlestop, a Slate podcast about presidential history.
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