Steve Coll was born on October 8,1958 and is an American journalist, academic and executive.
13 Facts About Steve Coll
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Steve Coll is currently the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is the Henry R Luce Professor of Journalism.
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Steve Coll 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.
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Steve Coll was born on October 8,1958, in Washington, DC He attended Thomas S Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, graduating in 1976.
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Steve Coll moved to Los Angeles, California, and enrolled in Occidental College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Steve Coll began working for the newspaper's Sunday magazine insert in 1995, serving as publisher of the magazine from 1996 to 1998.
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Steve Coll was promoted to managing editor of the newspaper in 1998 and served in that capacity through 2004.
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Steve Coll has served as an associate editor for the newspaper from late 2004 to August 2005.
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In September 2005, Steve Coll joined the writing staff of The New Yorker.
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On July 23,2007, Steve Coll was named as the next director of the New America Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank headquartered in Washington, DC He has contributed to the New York Review of Books, particularly about the war in Afghanistan.
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On June 25,2012, Steve Coll announced his resignation as President of the New America Foundation to pen a follow up to Ghost Wars.
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On October 23,2012, Steve Coll was elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, administered by Columbia University.
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On March 18,2013, Steve Coll was announced to succeed Nick Lemann as the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, effective July 1,2013.