Doyle McManus
{{short description|American journalist}}
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| birthname = Doyle Daniel McManus
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| birth_place = San Francisco, California
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| occupation = journalist and author
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| spouse = Paula Copeland McManus
| children = 3
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| credits = Los Angeles Times, PBS's Washington Week, CBS's Face the Nation, NPR's Weekend Edition
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Doyle McManus (born May 5, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist (for the Los Angeles Times),
{{cite news
|title=For the Media, 100-Days Story Represents the Perfect Swarm
|first=Howard |last=Kurtz |author-link=Howard Kurtz
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042703573.html
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|date=2009-04-28 |pages=C1, C6 |accessdate=2009-04-28
|quote="We are slaves to news pegs," says Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, which scooped the world by starting its pieces 10 days early. "Since it's an arbitrary number," he says, "who's to say Day 90 isn't just as important?" McManus looked up the story he published on George W. Bush's 100th day in office, when he credited the new president with "preaching a conciliatory message" and quoted a scholar as praising the administration's "astonishing professionalism." That experience, says McManus, was "sobering." }}
{{cite news
| title ='L.A. Times' D.C. Bureau Chief McManus Becomes Columnist
| first =Joe
| last =Strupp
| author-link =Joe Strupp
| url =http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&dcoll=iac&locID=chan86036&frmml=1&c=1&ste=41&docNum=A188862699
| work =Editor & Publisher
| publisher =Nielsen Business Media
| date =November 7, 2008
| accessdate = April 29, 2009
| quote =Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus is leaving his post to become a Times Op-Ed columnist, the paper revealed in a release today.
}} Document Number: A188862699. who appears often on Public Broadcasting Service's Washington Week.
{{cite web
|url=https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/mcmanus.html
|title=Washington Week . Doyle McManus
|accessdate=2008-09-10
|publisher=Public Broadcasting Service
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080622232638/http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/mcmanus.html |archive-date = 2008-06-22 }}
Early life
Doyle Daniel McManus is the first-born son of Lois Doyle and James R. McManus, who was a San Francisco advertising executive.{{cite news |last1=Speckmann |first1=Maybelle |title=Lois Leads A Model Life |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-independent-journal-lois-mcmanus/143578847/ |work=Daily Independent Journal |date=August 5, 1964 |location=San Rafael, California |page=37}}{{cite news |title=MCMANUS, James R. |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/10/MNMCMANUSJ26.DTL&hw=rafael&sn=051&sc=079 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |page=Z-99 |date=2008-08-10 |accessdate=2008-09-10 |archive-date=2020-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407040332/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2008%2F08%2F10%2FMNMCMANUSJ26.DTL&hw=rafael&sn=051&sc=079 |url-status=dead }} His younger brothers include Chris (born 1955)https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/christopher_james_mcmanus_born_1955_5607664 {{Bare URL inline|date=September 2022}} and Reed (born 1956).{{cite news |title=Reed McManus |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-reed-mcmanus/143579048/ |work=The Sacramento Bee |date=January 15, 2016 |page=A11}}
He earned an A.B. in history at Stanford University in 1974, and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Brussels.{{cite web|url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/docs/advisory_board/|title=FSI Stanford Advisory Board – FSI Stanford|accessdate=2008-09-07|publisher=Stanford University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012114211/http://fsi.stanford.edu/docs/advisory_board/|archive-date=2007-10-12|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/roguestates/article.asp?parentID=87391 |title=Speaker Bios, UCLA Burkle Center |accessdate=2008-09-10 |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605122131/http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/roguestates/article.asp?parentID=87391 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 }}
Career
As an undergraduate, McManus worked on the Stanford Daily.
He was a foreign correspondent for three years at the United Press International, beginning in Brussels.
He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978, reporting from Los Angeles, the Middle East, Central America, New York. He transferred to the Times's Washington, D.C., bureau in 1983, where he covered the U.S. State Department, and White House. He succeeded Jack Nelson as bureau chief in 1996. After thirteen years as bureau chief, he reportedly told colleagues that he had "long ago asked for a new assignment."
{{cite news
|first=Howard
|last=Kurtz
|author-link=Howard Kurtz
|title=Media Notes
|newspaper=The Washington Post
|pages=C1, C4 |date=2008-01-29 }}
In November 2008, the financially troubled Tribune Company made him a columnist when it closed the Los Angeles Times{{'}} bureau in favor of a single Washington bureau for all its newspapers.
Mr. McManus has written for Foreign Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated, and the London Daily Express. He appears regularly on the PBS commentary program Washington Week.
He has covered every presidential election since 1984.
In January 2008, he was a moderator at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's presidential primary debate in Los Angeles.{{cite news|title=Transcript: Democratic Debate in Los Angeles|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31text-debate.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122135714/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31text-debate.html|archive-date=November 22, 2023 |agency=Federal News Service |work =The New York Times |date =January 31, 2008 |accessdate = April 29, 2009}}
Memberships and awards
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Hoover Institution William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow April 19–24, 2004
{{cite web|url=http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2004 |title=William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year |accessdate=2011-10-27 |publisher=Hoover Institution |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101002439/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2004 |archive-date=November 1, 2011 }}
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Steering Committee
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford
- Board of Visitors of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.umd.edu/board.html |title=Philip Merrill College of Journalism |accessdate=2008-09-10 |publisher=University of Maryland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516032545/http://www.journalism.umd.edu/board.html |archive-date=May 16, 2008 |url-status=dead }}
Bibliography
- {{cite book
|last=Wright
|first=Robin
|author-link=Robin Wright (author)
|author2=Doyle McManus
|title=Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World
|url=https://archive.org/details/flashpoints00robi_0
|date=1991-12-03
|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf
|location=New York
|isbn=978-0-679-40708-9
}}
- {{cite book
|last=Mayer
|first=Jane
|author-link=Jane Mayer
|author2=Doyle McManus
|title=Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988
|year=1988
|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company
|location=Boston, Massachusetts
|isbn=978-0-395-45185-4
|url=https://archive.org/details/landslideunmakin00maye_0
}}
- {{cite book
|last=McManus
|first=Doyle
|title=Free at Last, the Complete Story of the Hostages' 444-Day Ordeal and the Secret Negotiations to Set Them Free
|edition=1st
|year=1981
|publisher=Signet Books
|location=New York
|isbn=978-0-451-11054-1
}}
Personal
McManus and his wife reside in Bethesda, Maryland.{{cite news
|first=Romesh
|last=Ratnesar
|title=On the Job with Doyle McManus
|url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/julaug/lsjournal/on_the_job.html
|work=Stanford Magazine
|publisher=Stanford Alumni Association
|date=July–August 1998
|accessdate=2008-09-10
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015202722/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/julaug/lsjournal/on_the_job.html
|archive-date=2008-10-15
|url-status=dead
Notes
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120805234719/http://www.doylemcmanus.com/ Doyle McManus] Personal website
- [https://archive.today/20130127145938/http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-dmcmanus,0,3085430.blurb Doyle McManus biography] Los Angeles Times official biography
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