Bob Herbert

Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos

Bob Herbert joined Demos after an 18-year career at the The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist, writing about politics, urban affairs and social trends in a twice-weekly column. From January 1991 to May 1993, Mr. Herbert was a national correspondent for NBC and reported regularly on The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. A founding panelist of Sunday Edition, a weekly discussion program on WCBS-TV, Mr. Herbert was the host of Hotline, a weekly hour-long issues program on WNYC-TV, both beginning in 1990. Previously, Mr. Herbert worked at The Daily News beginning in 1976. At The Daily News he was a general assignment reporter, national correspondent, consumer affairs editor, city hall bureau chief and city editor. In 1985, he became a columnist and a member of the Editorial Board. His column appeared in The Daily News until February 1993.

Herbert has numerous awards, including the Meyer Berger Award for coverage of New York City, the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing, the David Nyhan Prize from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University for excellence in political reporting, and the Ridenhour Courage Prize for the “fearless articulation of unpopular truths.”

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Corporate Incentives, Discretionary Spending, Economic Mobility, Efficient Government, Entrepreneurialism, Family/Medical leave, Federal Budget, Government Investment, Healthcare, Jobs, Labor Force, Living Wage, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, Multi-national corporations, Municipal/State Budgets, National Debt, Off Shore Tax Shelters, OSHA, Payroll Taxes, Privatization, Retirement, Small Business, Social Insurance, Social Investment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Unfunded Mandates, Unions, US Infrastructure, Wealth Creation, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, 1993-2011
• National Correspondent, NBC, 1991-1993
• Host, Hotline, WNYC-TV
• Founding Panelist, Sunday Edition, CBS
• General Assignment Reporter, The Daily News
• National Correspondent, The Daily News
• Consumer Affairs Editor, The Daily News
• City Hall Bureau Chief, The Daily News
• Chief Editor, The Daily News