Jesse McKinley is the son of James C McKinley, former University of Missouri, Kansas City English professor, editor of New Letters, and writer and Mary Ann Underwood, a former continuing education program manager at UMKC.
13 Facts About Jesse McKinley
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Jesse McKinley has worked at The New York Times in various capacities since 1988.
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From 1994 to 1996, as a freelancer, Jesse McKinley wrote the FYI column for the City Weekly section of The New York Times, where he responded to reader questions about local trivia.
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From 1996 to 1997, Jesse McKinley worked in San Francisco as a stringer for The New York Times, where he covered 1996's Proposition 209 aka California Civil Rights Initiative, the 1997 Heaven's Gate suicides, and other breaking news.
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In 1998, Jesse McKinley returned to New York and worked as a freelance reporter in the Culture section, where he covered Broadway and wrote the "On Stage and Off" column from 1998 to 2003.
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In 2000, Jesse McKinley was hired as a full time reporter at The New York Times, continuing to work on content for the Culture section until 2006.
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In 2006, Jesse McKinley moved back to San Francisco, where he was the San Francisco bureau chief for The New York Times.
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In 2014, during his tenure as the Albany bureau chief, Jesse McKinley was named as one of the top reporters working out of state capitals.
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Jesse McKinley regularly appears on the WAMC audio podcast, The Capitol Connection, hosted by Alan Chartock.
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In 1995, Jesse McKinley wrote the "Off Off Broadway" play called Quick Bright Things, which was loosely based on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Jesse McKinley wrote a feature article about the experience for The New York Times.
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Jesse McKinley was a regular panelist on the Emmy-award winning nationally syndicated talk show about theater called Theater Talk, which aired on PBS and later CUNY TV.
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Jesse McKinley has appeared in the 2003 FringeNYC festival in Bess Wohl's play, Cats Talk Back and, in 2007, in a San Francisco-based installment of Literary Death Match called "Cyrillic Battle to the Death".