Josh Marshall | |
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Born |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
February 15, 1969
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse(s) | Millet Israeli |
Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969) is an American Polk Award-winning journalist and liberal / progressive blogger who founded Talking Points Memo, which The New York Times Magazine called "one of the most popular and most respected sites" in the blogosphere. He currently presides over a network of liberal/progressive-oriented sites that operate under the TPM Media banner and average 400,000-page views every weekday and 750,000 unique visitors every month.
Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times,National Public Radio,The New York Times Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review,Bill Moyers Journal, and GQ.Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, compares Marshall to the influential founders of Time magazine. "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. He’s like Briton Hadden or Henry Luce. He’s created something new."
Marshall was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Webb Schools of California and Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. in American history from Brown University. In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as Lawrence Lessig.