Bob Herbert
{{short description|American journalist}}
{{other people|Robert Herbert}}
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| name = Bob Herbert
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| birthname = Robert Herbert
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|03|07}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Journalist
| education = Empire State University (BS)
| credits = The New York Times
Sunday Edition
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Robert Herbert (born March 7, 1945) is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq War, racism and American political apathy towards racism. He is now a fellow at Demos and was elected to serve on the Common Cause National Governing Board in 2015.
Early life and education
Herbert was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised primarily in Montclair, New Jersey, where his parents owned a number of upholstery shops.{{cite news |title=Times Select, Meet the Columnists |date=September 19, 2005 |work=The New York Times |url=https://select.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/09/19/opinion/20050919_HERBERT_FEATURE.html |access-date=January 27, 2009}} He was drafted during the buildup to the Vietnam War, but was ultimately sent to Korea. Always having had an interest in politics and writing, Herbert decided shortly after the war to go into journalism. Herbert received a Bachelor of Science in journalism from the State University of New York (Empire State College) in 1988.
Career
Herbert's journalistic career began with The Star-Ledger in New Jersey in 1970. Herbert went on to work as a reporter and editor at the New York Daily News from 1976 until 1985, when he became a political columnist and editor, and began attracting attention for his editorial work. This led to a position on WCBS-TV in New York, as a founding panelist of Sunday Edition in 1990, as well as becoming host of Hotline, a weekly issues program on New York public television. He later served as a national correspondent on NBC from 1991 to 1993, with regular appearances on The Today Show and NBC Nightly News.{{cite news |title=Columnist Biography: Bob Herbert |date=March 16, 2003 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/HERBERT-BIO.html |access-date=September 21, 2008 }}
Herbert's journalistic awards include the Meyer Berger Award for coverage of New York City and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing. He also chaired the Pulitzer Prize jury for spot news reporting in 1993. Herbert is author of Promises Betrayed: Waking Up From The American Dream, published by Henry Holt & Company in 2005.
Herbert left The New York Times on March 25, 2011, with his last column titled, "Losing Our Way."{{cite news |author=Bob Herbert |title=Losing Our Way |date=March 26, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/opinion/26herbert.html}} In June 2011, Herbert joined the national think-tank Demos as a Distinguished Senior Fellow. At the time his fellowship was announced, it was also revealed that he will write for the Demos blog PolicyShop as well as The American Prospect magazine, which merged with Demos in 2010.
In 2014 Herbert published his book Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America.Interview with Bob Herbert, at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, broadcast on C-SPAN2 BookTV, December 28, 2014, 1:00 a.m. PST.
Herbert directed the documentary film, Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class (2017) which explores issues of the Black middle class, structural racism, and discrimination through historical footage and interviews with people such as Isabel Wilkerson, Maya Rockeymoore, Elijah Cummings, Alvin Poussaint, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Marc Morial.{{Cite web |last=Moyers |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Moyers |date=March 2, 2017 |title=Watch Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class |url=https://billmoyers.com/story/watch-odds-fight-black-middle-class/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=BillMoyers.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Kaufmann |first=Greg |date=2017-05-22 |title='Against All Odds' Is Required Viewing for White Progressives |url=https://talkpoverty.org/2017/05/22/bob-herberts-odds-required-viewing-white-progressives/index.html |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Talk Poverty |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=October 31, 2017 |title=What about the black middle class? |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1101-shipp-black-middle-class-20171031-story.html |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Baltimore Sun}}
=In pop culture=
Herbert is mentioned in the Seinfeld episode "The Big Salad" when character George Costanza's girlfriend Julie is discussing her favorite writers, and says "And Bob Herbert's great. He's the Daily News," to which Costanza compares Herbert's name pronunciation with Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert.{{Cite web |last=Gupta |first=Anjali |date=2022-02-25 |title=Bobby Hebert Bio [2022 Update]: NFL, Entrepreneur, Wife & Net Worth |url=https://playersbio.com/bobby-hebert/ |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=Players Bio |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Andriatch |first=Bruce |title=10 times Seinfeld showed his love for newspapers |url=https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/10-times-seinfeld-showed-his-love-for-newspapers/article_337d47b8-156e-5dd4-b17f-1bbb6db63bab.html |access-date=2022-09-05 |website=Buffalo News |date=January 20, 2016 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2038907}}
- [https://select.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/09/19/opinion/20050919_HERBERT_FEATURE.html "Meet Bob Herbert"], The New York Times biographical video interview
- [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/bobherbert/ Bob Herbert's New York Times Columnist Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509164120/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/bobherbert/ |date=May 9, 2008 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114201411/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07%2F03%2F01%2F1429251 Interview at Democracy Now]
- [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n8_v59/ai_17367818 1995 Interview with The Progressive, at FindArticles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050326184629/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n8_v59/ai_17367818 |date=March 26, 2005 }}
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- [http://www.c-span.org/video/?186817-1/qa-bob-herbert C-SPAN Q&A interview with Herbert, May 29, 2005]
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