23 Facts About David Broder

David Salzer Broder was an American journalist, writing for The Washington Post for over 40 years.

David Broder was an author, television news show pundit, and university lecturer.

David Salzer Broder was born to a Jewish family in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the son of Albert "Doc" Broder, a dentist, and Nina Salzer Broder.

David Broder earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from the University of Chicago in 1947 and continued his studies there, receiving a master's degree in political science in 1951.

David Broder began working as a journalist while pursuing his master's degree, serving as editor of The Chicago Maroon and later at the Hyde Park Herald.

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David Broder was drafted into the US Army in 1951, where he wrote for the newspaper US Forces Austria Sentinel, until he was discharged from the Army in 1953.

In 1953 David Broder reported for The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois, covering Livingston and Woodford counties in the central part of the state.

In 1960 Broder joined The Washington Star as a junior political writer covering the presidential election that year between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

David Broder left the Star for The New York Times in 1965, hired by well-known Times political reporter and columnist Tom Wicker to serve in its Washington bureau.

David Broder's columns were distributed initially through The Washington Post Wire Service and then later syndicated through The Washington Post Writers Group.

In May 2008, David Broder accepted a buyout offer from The Washington Post Co.

In June 2008, Ken Silverstein, a columnist at Harper's Magazine, alleged that David Broder had accepted free accommodations and thousands of dollars in speaking fees from various business and healthcare groups, in one instance penning an opinion column supporting positions favored by one of the groups.

David Broder won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1973 and was the recipient of numerous awards and academic honors before and after.

Many years David Broder appeared on Washington Week, Meet the Press, and other network television and radio news programs.

David Broder appeared far more often than any other person, other than the program's hosts.

The next closest person to David Broder was Bob Novak, who had appeared on Meet the Press fewer than 250 times.

David Broder contributed to The Bob Edwards Show as a political commentator.

In 2001 David Broder became a lecturer at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism while continuing to write full-time at The Washington Post.

David Broder generally lectured one class a year on politics and the press, the class meeting at the newspaper.

David Broder died of complications from diabetes on March 9,2011, at the age of 81.

David Broder earned substantial attention in two books chronicling the media's coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign between Richard Nixon and George McGovern, including Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus and Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.

David Broder's work was cited in two autobiographies by key figures in the history of The Washington Post: Personal History by Post publisher Katharine Graham in 1997 and A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Post executive editor Ben Bradlee in 1995.

David Broder earned a place in works of fiction, meriting a mention by a White House senior staffer to fictional US president Jed Bartlet on the NBC-TV series The West Wing, and in Steven Spielberg's 2017 film The Post.