David Shribman

{{Short description|American journalist and author}}

David Shribman is an American journalist and author, with a career spanning many well-known newspapers. He has since turned to teaching.

Shribman won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.{{cite news |last1=Shaw |first1=David |title=Times Awarded Pulitzer for Coverage of Quake : Honors: Prize is paper's second in three years for covering a calamity. Small daily wins for public service. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-19-mn-56398-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times | oclc=3638237 |issn=0458-3035 | eissn=2165-1736 |date=19 April 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003034604/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-19-mn-56398-story.html |archive-date=3 October 2022}} At the time, he served as the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, as well as a columnist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/david-shribman|title=David Shribman of The Boston Globe|date=1995|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-28}}

His first job was at the city desk of the Buffalo Evening News. Subsequently, he served in national news and politics capacities at the same paper and at the Washington Star, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. In 2002, he was hired as executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he remained for 16 years. He had planned on retiring in 2019, but the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting caused him to leave earlier;{{Cite web|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2018/11/02/pittsburgh-post-gazette-front-page-newspaper-kaddish-mourners-prayer/stories/201811020126|title=About the Jewish mourners' prayer on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front page|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|language=en|access-date=2019-10-28}} he made the globally-recognized decision to publish a front-page, full-width headline, in Hebrew-Aramaic, of the opening of the Jewish mourner's prayer the Friday following the massacre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2018/12/18/Post-Gazette-editor-David-Shribman-leaving-end-2018/stories/201812180092|title=Post-Gazette editor David Shribman to step down at end of the year|website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|language=en|access-date=2019-10-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/us/pittsburgh-post-gazette-kaddish-phrase-trnd/index.html|title=A Pittsburgh newspaper put the first words of the Jewish mourning prayer on its front page|author1=Christina Maxouris |author2=Brandon Griggs|website=CNN|date=2 November 2018|access-date=2019-10-28}}

Post-newspaper-career, he spent a period at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now on a longer term appointment as professor at McGill University, with plans to return to Carnegie Mellon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2018/december/scholar-in-residence.html|title=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Shribman Named Scholar-in-Residence at Dietrich College - News - Carnegie Mellon University|last=|first=|date=2018-12-18|website=www.cmu.edu|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/david-shribman|title=David Shribman|website=Max Bell School of Public Policy|language=en|access-date=2019-10-28}}

While at the Post-Gazette, Shribman spearheaded the formation of Spotlight PA, a state politics reporting nonprofit serving multiple newspapers.

Shribman was born in Salem, son of Norma{{Cite web|url=https://obituaries.salemnews.com/obituary/norma-shribman-772352421|title=Remembering the life of Norma Shribman}} and Richard Shribman.{{Cite web|url=https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/david-shribman-76|title=David Shribman '76|last=Oct 2018|first=Lisa Furlong {{!}} Sep-|website=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-10-28}} He attended Dartmouth, his father's alma mater, and did graduate work at Cambridge. He married Cindy Skrzycki in 1978. They have two adult daughters, Elizabeth and Natalie. His wife was also a journalist before switching to university teaching. She had been a business columnist for the Washington Post, a senior English department lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the McGill faculty in 2019. He has citizenship in both the United States and Canada. {{As of|2019|11|df=}}, daughter Natalie Shribman was studying rabbinics at Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College,{{Cite web|url=https://www.colby.edu/jewishlife/2018/08/16/meet-natalie-shribman/|title=Meet Natalie Shribman {{!}} Center for Small Town Jewish Life|website=Colby College|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-29}}{{Cite web|url=http://jewishjournal.org/2018/11/15/shribman-a-north-shore-native-reflects-on-the-tragedy-in-pittsburgh/|title=Shribman, a North Shore native, reflects on the tragedy in Pittsburgh|date=2018-11-15|website=Jewish Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-29}} and daughter Elizabeth Shribman was an Associate Director of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra;{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20499084|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-10-29|title=Elizabeth Shribman, San Francisco Symphony Inc: Profile and Biography }}{{Cite web|url=https://americanorchestras.org/images/stories/elp/2019/Shribman-Bio.pdf|title=League of American Orchestras - Shribman Bio|last=|first=|date=2019|website=League of American Orchestras|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029153939/https://americanorchestras.org/images/stories/elp/2019/Shribman-Bio.pdf|archive-date=2019-10-29|access-date=2019-10-29|url-status=dead}} Elizabeth was subsequently promoted to Chief of Staff.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Board-Staff|title=San Francisco Symphony - Board & Staff|website=www.sfsymphony.org|access-date=2019-10-29|archive-date=2019-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103053621/https://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Board-Staff|url-status=dead}}

He served as a trustee of Dartmouth, produced a history of the college, and sits on the board of a number of presidential libraries and journalism organizations.

Shribman wrote I Remember My Teacher, reminiscences about America's greatest educators, in the formal and informal sense.