Doyle McManus

Columnist
Los Angeles Times

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Doyle McManus, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has reported for more than 30 years on national and international issues from Washington, the Middle East and Europe, and has covered every presidential election campaign since 1984. As the former Washington Bureau Chief, the bureau he lead was been widely recognized as one of Washington's best news operations, with four Pulitzer Prize winners among its 40 reporters and editors.

McManus is a four-time winner of the National Press Club's Edwin Hood Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy, most recently in 2004 for articles on the occupation of Iraq. He has also won Georgetown University's Weintal Prize for coverage of foreign affairs.

He is author or coauthor of three books including Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-88, a bestseller named by The New York Times as one of the most notable books of 1988. He appears frequently on PBS's ''Washington Week,'' CBS's "Face the Nation" and NPR's ''Weekend Edition Sunday.''

McManus joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 after three years as a foreign correspondent for United Press International. He reported for the Times from Los Angeles, Athens, Beirut, Tehran, New York and Washington, and became Washington Bureau Chief in 1996. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated and the London Daily Express.

McManus, 54, graduated from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Brussels. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, and the Board of Visitors of the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was a member of Stanford's board of trustees from 1988 to 1993.

He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, Paula Copeland McManus; they have three adult daughters.

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