Richard Wolffe
| Richard Wolffe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 September 1968 Birmingham, England |
| Education | King Edward's School, Birmingham; Oxford University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | MSNBC |
| Spouse(s) | Paula Cuello |
Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President (Crown, June 2009) and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (Crown, November 2010). Richard Wolffe is a US columnist for The Guardian. He was most recently vice president and executive editor of MSNBC.com.
Wolffe was born to an English father and a Moroccan mother in Birmingham, England. He is Jewish. He is a 1992 graduate of Oxford University, first-class honours, in English and French literature, having attended the fee-paying independent school, King Edward's School, Birmingham.
He took the Westminster Press diploma in journalism, starting with the pre-entry course at Hastings in autumn 1992 while a trainee reporter with the Brighton Argus, and moved to the Financial Times and thereafter Newsweek.
Wolffe covered the entire length of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine, traveling with the candidate and his inner circle from his announcement through election day, 21 months later.
He is a political analyst on MSNBC, having appeared frequently on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Hardball with Chris Matthews. On NBC, he was featured as a political commentator on Meet The Press and TODAY. He features prominently in the forthcoming HBO documentary on the Obama campaign, and played a leading role in the HBO documentary of the 2000 Bush campaign, Journeys With George. He has also appeared on CNN and Fox News, as well as international media including British, Canadian and Australian television.
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