Thomas B. Edsall
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Thomas Byrne Edsall August 22, 1941 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, professor |
 Booknotes interview with Edsall on Chain Reaction, December 15, 1991, C-SPAN
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Washington Journal interview with Edsall on The Age of Austerity, January 27, 2012, C-SPAN
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Thomas Byrne Edsall (born August 22, 1941) is an American journalist and liberal / progressiveacademic, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2006–2014; adjunct professor 2014–2017, Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City. He is best known for his weekly opinion column for The New York Times online and for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post.
From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity. In 2011, he became a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times, where he currently continues. Previously, he covered national politics for the Washington Post from 1981 to 2006; covered politics for The Baltimore Sun (1967–1981); served as a VISTA volunteer (1966–1967); and reported for The Providence Journal (1965). He was the political editor of the Huffington Post from 2007 to 2009, a correspondent for The New Republic from 2006 to 2013 and for the National Journal from 2006 to 2007. In November and December 2006, Edsall was a guest columnist for the print edition of the New York Times Op-Ed page.
Edsall was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Linn Edsall and Katherine Byrne. He attended Brown University and received his B.A. from Boston University in 1966. He is married and lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary (daughter of Karl Deutsch), with whom he co-authored the book Chain Reaction.
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