Marcia Coyle
{{Short description|American legal reporter (born 1952)}}
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Marcia Coyle (born 1952) is an American legal reporter. She covered the United States Supreme Court for The National Law Journal for almost thirty years until retiring from the Journal in 2022.{{Cite web|last=Robson|first=Nate|url=https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/12/19/veteran-supreme-court-reporter-marcia-coyle-retires/?slreturn=2025040362134|title=Veteran Supreme Court Reporter Marcia Coyle Retires|date=December 19, 2022|magazine=The National Law Journal|url-access=subscription}} She is a regular contributing reporter to the PBS News Hour on matters concerning the Supreme Court.{{cite web |title=Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal [biography] |date=2013 |publisher=University of California, Irvine School of Law |url=http://www.law.uci.edu/calendar/Marcia_Coyle_bio.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109001226/http://www.law.uci.edu/calendar/Marcia_Coyle_bio.pdf |archive-date=January 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 7, 2025}}
Early life and education
Coyle grew up in Pennsylvania.{{cite news|last=Foster|first=Fran|title=Coyle to talk about Supreme Court beat|date=January 27, 2016|publisher=Treasure Coast Newspapers|url=https://www.tcpalm.com/story/specialty-publications/vero-beach/2016/01/27/coyle-to-talk-about-supreme-court-beat/89245812/|access-date=April 4, 2025}} She earned a BA from Hood College,{{cite web|title=Harlan Lecture – Full Court Press IV: The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Understanding|date=October 2018|publisher=The Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University|url=https://lapaweb.princeton.edu/content/full-court-press-iv-supreme-court-media-and-public-understanding|access-date=April 6, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250407032458/https://lapaweb.princeton.edu/content/full-court-press-iv-supreme-court-media-and-public-understanding|archive-date=April 7, 2025|url-status=live}} a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Career
In 1974, Coyle began working as a journalist for the Call-Chronicle of Allentown, Pennsylvania. She got her start at the paper writing obituaries. She later covered state government and politics, and was based in the state capital of Harrisburg. In 1984, the Call-Chronicle opened a Washington bureau and assigned Coyle to organize and oversee it.{{cite news |title=Call names chief of Harrisburg bureau |url=https://www.mcall.com/1985/01/13/call-names-chief-of-harrisburg-bureau/ |access-date=April 4, 2025 |newspaper=The Morning Call |date=January 13, 1985}} She was hired by The National Law Journal in 1987 and ultimately became the Journal{{'s}} chief Washington correspondent.{{cite press release |title=PBS NewsHour to Provide Complete Coverage of the Senate Confirmation Hearings for Elena Kagan |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/pbs-newshour-to-provide-complete-coverage-of-the-senate-confirmation-hearings-for-elena-kagan |author=PBS News Hour |date=June 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/94/best-colleges-10_Hood-College_94189.html |work=Forbes |title=America's Best Colleges: #425 Hood College |date=August 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815000615/https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/94/best-colleges-10_Hood-College_94189.html |archive-date=August 15, 2010 |url-status=dead}} In the mid-2000s, Coyle began providing news analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court for the PBS News Hour and continued to do so into 2025.{{cite web |title=The Supreme Court Rejects Military Tribunals [broadcast segment transcript] |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-supreme-court-rejects-military-tribunals |publisher=PBS NewsHour |access-date=May 1, 2025 |date=June 29, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924125930/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-supreme-court-rejects-military-tribunals |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Coyle |first1=Marcia |title=Why Mexico is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on gun trafficking |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-mexico-is-asking-the-supreme-court-to-weigh-in-on-gun-trafficking |publisher=PBS News |access-date=April 4, 2025 |date=March 3, 2025}}{{cite web |title=Marcia Coyle |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/author/mcoyle |publisher=PBS News |access-date=April 4, 2025}} During a segment with Coyle on the April 30, 2025, edition of the News Hour, it was revealed that this appearance would be her final report on the Supreme Court for the program, as she intends to shift more of her time to writing about the court and "spending ... more time with [her] grandchildren".{{cite web |last1=Yang |first1=John |author-link=John Yang (journalist) |title=Justices appear divided in Supreme Court case over publicly-funded religious schools [video and transcript of broadcast segment] |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/justices-appear-divided-in-supreme-court-case-over-publicly-funded-religious-schools |publisher=PBS News |access-date=May 1, 2025 |date=April 30, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501094622/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/justices-appear-divided-in-supreme-court-case-over-publicly-funded-religious-schools |archive-date=May 1, 2025 |url-status=live}}
In 1995, she contributed to the book A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court.{{cite web|title=Books: A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court|publisher=Duke University Press|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-year-in-the-life-of-the-supreme-court|access-date=April 6, 2025}} In 2013, she authored the book The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution.{{cite news|last=Rosen|first=Jeffrey|author-link=Jeffrey Rosen (legal academic)|title=Book review: 'The Roberts Court' by Marcia Coyle|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinion/book-review-the-roberts-court-by-marcia-coyle/2013/05/16/55692a2a-bd78-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 16, 2013|url-access=subscription|access-date=April 3, 2025}}{{Cite web|last=Shapiro|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan Shapiro (writer)|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-roberts-court/|title=Words Matter: Marcia Coyle's 'The Roberts Court'|date=September 3, 2013|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}
Coyle retired from The National Law Journal in December 2022.
Awards and honors
Coyle received the 1992 George Polk Award for Legal Reporting.{{Cite web|last=Glaberson|first=William|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/02/arts/recipients-named-for-the-polk-awards.html|title=Recipients Named For the Polk Awards|date=March 2, 1993|newspaper=The New York Times|page=C17}} In November 2000, she received the Toni House Journalism Award from the American Judicature Society for her total body of work.{{cite web|title=Supreme Court Preview: What to Expect From the New Term, September 21–22, 2001|at=Section, "2001–2002 Supreme Court Preview: Who's Who on the Panels"|url=https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=preview|date=September 21, 2001|publisher=William & Mary Law School|access-date=April 6, 2025}} In 2021, she received the Gavel Award of the American Judges Association.{{cite web|title=National Law Journal Chief Washington Correspondent, Marcia Coyle, named recipient of the American Judges Association's 2021 Gavel Award|date=2022|publisher=ALM|url=https://www.alm.com/news/national-law-journal-chief-washington-correspondent-marcia-coyle-named-recipient-of-the-american-judges-associations-2021-gavel-award/|access-date=April 6, 2025}}
Personal
Coyle married Raymond E. DiBiagio Jr. in May 1984 and sometimes uses the name Marcia Coyle DiBiagio.{{cite web |last1=Parkhurst Van Why |first1=Sara "Sally" |title=Class News: Class of 1973 |url=https://classnews.hoodmarketing.org/index.php/category/class-news/1973/ |publisher=Hood College |access-date=April 6, 2025 |date=Summer 2014}}{{cite news |title=Connie Coyle Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mcall/name/connie-coyle-obituary?id=20100307 |access-date=April 6, 2025 |work=The Morning Call |date=October 6, 2012}}
References
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External links
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Category:American legal writers
Category:George Polk Award recipients
Category:20th-century American women journalists
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:American women television journalists
Category:Medill School of Journalism alumni
Category:University of Baltimore School of Law alumni