Richard L. Berke

Washington Editor
The New York Times

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Having grown up in the political atmosphere of the nation's capital, where he was born, Richard L. Berke has been a reporter or an editor at the Washington bureau of the New York Times since 1986. He covered the 1988, 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, and his beats included Congress, the White House, and money and politics.

Before joining the New York Times, he was with the Baltimore Evening Sun from 1981 to 1986, where he rose to the position of chief Washington correspondent after covering Congress, the White House and government agencies, as well as Baltimore City Hall and that city's politics. Before Mr. Berke went to the Sun, he was a general assignment reporter with the Minneapolis Tribune in 1980.

Born in Washington, D.C., Mr. Berke received a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 1980 and an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1981. In 1983 he received a first place award for enterprise reporting from the Maryland Society of Professional Journalists. In the spring of 1997, he was a fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, and taught a course in covering American politics.

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