Joshua Paul "Josh" Mankiewicz (born August 27, 1955) is an American journalist, who has been reporting for '' Dateline NBC'' since 1995. He has reported for '' The Today Show'' and '' NBC Nightly News'' with

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, and ''

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''. Before moving to NBC, Mankiewicz worked as a producer and reporter for

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. Although he has covered a wide variety of stories, he may be best known for his Dateline NBC report on the

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. In the piece, he showed his personal progress on the diet, losing upwards of 47 pounds (21 kilograms). In 2006, in addition to his work as a correspondent, he was featured in "The Mank Blog", an irreverent look at what people are talking about online.

Personal life

Mankiewicz is the son of Holly ( Jolley; 1925–2019) and

Frank Mankiewicz Frank Fabian Mankiewicz II (May 16, 1924 – October 23, 2014) was an American journalist, political adviser, president of National Public Radio, and public relations executive. Life and career Frank Mankiewicz was born in New York City ...

(1924-2014). Mankiewicz's father was

Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, a ...

's press secretary. His father was Jewish and his mother was raised

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but left the church. She worked with the Los Angeles chapter of the

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. He is the grandson of famed screenwriter

Herman Mankiewicz Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for ''Citizen Kane'' (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles would go on to receive the Academy Award for Best Or ...

and grand-nephew of screenwriter, producer and director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best ...

. He is the older brother of radio personality and

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prime-time host Ben Mankiewicz. He is a cousin of screenwriter

Tom Mankiewicz Thomas Frank Mankiewicz (June 1, 1942 – July 31, 2010) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures and television whose credits included ''James Bond'' films and his contributions to '' Superman: The Movie'' (1978) a ...

and of filmmaker/television producer Nick Davis. Mankiewicz is a 1977 graduate of

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), began accepting non-Quakers in 1849, and became coeducational ...

in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of

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. Mankiewicz married Anh Tu Dang in 2016.

References

External links

*
Josh Mankiewicz biography
at

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* New York Times
One T.S.A. Line Worth the Wait
* OC Weekly

* People Magazine

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