Steven V. Roberts (born February 11, 1943) is an American

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, and

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Life and career

Roberts was born in

Bayonne, New Jersey Bayonne ( ) is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is situated on a peninsula located between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east. As ...

, and graduated from

Bayonne High School Bayonne High School (BHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Bayonne, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operated by the Bayonne Board of Education. The school has been ...

.Rahman, Sarah
"Author Steven V. Roberts pays a visit to hometown of Bayonne"
''

The Jersey Journal ''The Jersey Journal'' is a daily newspaper, published from Monday through Saturday, covering news and events throughout Hudson County, New Jersey. ''The Journal'' is a sister paper to ''The Star-Ledger'' of Newark, ''The Times'' of Trenton an ...

'', December 11, 2009. Accessed March 19, 2017. "For author Steven V. Roberts, Bayonne will always be the home to come back to, despite travels across continents and moving from one corner of the world to the next." He attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

, where he served as editor of the student newspaper, ''

The Harvard Crimson ''The Harvard Crimson'' is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873. Run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates, it served for many years as the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning in the f ...

''. After graduating with a B.A. in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' as research assistant to

James Reston James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' Early lif ...

, then the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief. He was a senior writer at '' U.S. News & World Report'' for seven years where he is now a contributing editor. As a Washington

pundit A pundit is a person who offers mass media opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport). Origins The term originates from the Sanskrit term ('' '' ), meaning "knowledg ...

, Roberts appears regularly on ABC Radio, ''

Washington Week in Review ''Washington Week''—previously ''Washington Week in Review''—is an American public affairs television program, which has aired on PBS and its predecessor, National Educational Television, since 1967. Unlike other panel discussion shows which ...

'', CNN, ''

Hardball with Chris Matthews ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'' was an American television talk show that was hosted by Chris Matthews. The program premiered on the now-defunct America's Talking network in 1994 (as ''Politics with Chris Matthews'') before moving on CNBC, and t ...

''. He often filled in as substitute host of ''

The Diane Rehm Show ''The Diane Rehm Show'' was a call-in show based in the United States that aired nationally on NPR (National Public Radio). In October 2007, ''The Diane Rehm Show'' was named to the Audience Research Analysis list of the top ten most powerful nati ...

'' on

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(National Public Radio). He also appears regularly on ''

America Abroad ''America Abroad'' was a monthly documentary radio program produced by America Abroad Media (AAM), a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization. The program was distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) and broadcast on public radio sta ...

''. Roberts has taught journalism and political communication at

The George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presid ...

's School of Media and Public Affairs since 1997. Roberts and his wife,

Cokie Roberts Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PBS, ...

, wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column and were contributing writers for ''

USA Weekend ''USA Weekend'' was an American weekend newspaper magazine owned by the Gannett Company. Structured as a sister publication to Gannett's flagship newspaper ''USA Today'' and distributed in the Sunday editions of participating local newspapers, i ...

'', a Sunday magazine that appears in 500 newspapers nationwide. In February 2000, they jointly published ''From This Day Forward''. They have two children, Lee and Rebecca, and six grandchildren.

Books

*''Cokie: A Life Well Lived'' () is Steve's 2021 tribute about Cokie and her legacy. *''Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families'' () is his 2011 book co-authored with his wife, Cokie Roberts. *''From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America'', 2009. *''My Fathers' Houses'', 2005. *''From This Day Forward'', (with Cokie Roberts), Morrow, 2000.

References

Sources

Steve Roberts bio from George Washington University

External links

*
America Abroad
*obit of twin with biographical info on Steven V. Roberts https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/07/29/marc-roberts-chestnut-hill-harvard-school-public-health-professor-had-global-reach-economics-teacher-and-consultant/v41p3cyjbSEjNH2YONAE6J/story.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Steven V. 1943 births Living people American male journalists Bayonne High School alumni The Harvard Crimson people George Washington University faculty Writers from Bayonne, New Jersey Steven Boggs family Claiborne family