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Steve Coll is an American journalist, author, and business executive. He is the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He is the author of several books, including Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2005.
Coll was born on October 8, 1958 in Washington, D.C. He attended Sidwell Friends School and graduated from Harvard College in 1980. He then worked as a reporter for The Washington Post from 1985 to 2005, where he served as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004.
Coll is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Overseas Press Club awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of several books, including Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (2012) and Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2018).
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Journalist, author, business executive |
| Age |
65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
8 October, 1958 |
| Birthday |
8 October |
| Birthplace |
Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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He is a member of famous Journalist with the age 65 years old group.
Steve Coll Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Steve Coll's Wife?
His wife is Eliza Griswold
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Eliza Griswold |
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4 |
Steve Coll Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Steve Coll worth at the age of 65 years old? Steve Coll’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from United States. We have estimated
Steve Coll's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Journalist |
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Timeline
On March 18, 2013, Coll was announced to succeed Nick Lemann as the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, effective July 1, 2013.
He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, a PEN American Center John Kenneth Galbraith Award, an Arthur Ross Book Award, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. From 2012 to 2013, he was a voting member of the Pulitzer Prize Board before continuing to serve in an ex officio capacity as the dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
On October 23, 2012, Coll was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, administered by Columbia University.
On July 23, 2007, Coll was named as the next director of the New America Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. He has also contributed to the New York Review of Books, particularly about the war in Afghanistan. On June 25, 2012, Coll announced his resignation as President of the New America Foundation to pen a follow up to Ghost Wars.
In September 2005, Coll joined the writing staff of The New Yorker. Based in Washington, D.C., he reported on foreign intelligence and national security.
Coll began working for the newspaper's Sunday magazine insert in 1995, serving as publisher of the magazine from 1996 to 1998. He was promoted to managing editor of the newspaper in 1998 and served in that capacity through 2004. He has also served as an associate editor for the newspaper from late 2004 to August 2005.
In 1985, he started working for The Washington Post as a general assignment feature writer for the paper's Style section. Two years later, he was promoted to serve as the financial correspondent for the newspaper, based in New York City. He and David A. Vise collaborated on a series of reports scrutinizing the Securities and Exchange Commission for which they received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers. In 1989, he moved to New Delhi, when he was appointed as the Post's South Asia bureau chief. He served as a foreign correspondent through 1995.
Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive. He is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. A staff writer for The New Yorker, he served as the president and CEO of the New America think tank from 2007 to 2012.
Steve Coll was born on October 8, 1958, in Washington, D.C. He attended Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, graduating in 1976. He moved to Los Angeles, California, and enrolled in Occidental College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1980, he graduated cum laude with majors in English and history. Coll also attended the University of Sussex during his studies.
