Bill Keller

Bill Keller ( born January 18, 1949 in Palo Alto, California) is an American journalist. He was from 2003 to 2011 editor of the New York Times.

Biography

Keller attended Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. During his time at Pomona College, he began his journalistic career with the founding of the newspaper The collage. After graduating college, he became a reporter in 1970 in Portland, Oregon for The Portland Oregonian. In 1980 he went to the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington, DC and then to the Dallas Times Herald.

For the New York Times, he came in 1984 and worked for them in Washington. In 1986 he became a reporter in Moscow and in 1988 he became head of the local office. In 1989 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from the Soviet Union. He became chief of the newspaper in Johannesburg in 1992 and remained there until 1995. 1995, he was foreign editor and managing editor in 1997. The conclusion of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania he made he was then 2000. 2001 a columnist and senior writer. As of July 2003, he served as editor in chief for The New York Times.

On 6 July 2005 he defended Judith Miller in the case of the Plame affair.

Early July 2011, announced his resignation basement to the 6th of September 2011; Successor was Jill Abramson. Keller continues to work in the company and write, among other things as a writer for the New York Times Magazine.

Works

• Tree Shaker: the story of Nelson Mandela; Kingfisher, Boston 2008, ISBN 0-7534-5992-2; YA

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