David Shribman is an American

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and author, with a career spanning many well-known newspapers. He has since turned to teaching. Shribman won the 1995

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for Beat Reporting. At the time, he served as the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, as well as a columnist. His first job was at the city desk of the

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. Subsequently, he served in national news and politics capacities at the same paper and at the

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, the

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, the

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, and the Boston Globe. In 2002, he was hired as executive editor of the

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, 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; he made the globally-recognized decision to publish a front-page, full-width headline, in

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, of the opening of the Jewish mourner's prayer the Friday following the massacre. Post-newspaper-career, he spent a period at

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, and is now on a longer term appointment as professor at

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, with plans to return to Carnegie Mellon. While at the Post-Gazette, Shribman spearheaded the formation of

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, a state politics reporting nonprofit serving multiple newspapers. Shribman was born in

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, son of Norma and Richard Shribman. He attended Dartmouth, his father's alma mater, and did graduate work at

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. 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

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and

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. , daughter Natalie Shribman was studying

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nics at

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, and daughter Elizabeth Shribman was an Associate Director of the

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orchestra; Elizabeth was subsequently promoted to Chief of Staff. 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.

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