Bob Herbert Biography
Bob Herbert is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Herbert’s journalism career began with The Star-Ledger in New Jersey in 1970.
Bob Herbert Age
He was born Robert Herbert on 7 March 1945, in New York, New York, United States of America. Bob is 78 years old as of March 2023.
Bob Herbert Family- Education
Herbert was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up mostly in Montclair, New Jersey, where his parents ran many upholstery shops. Herbert earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from State University of New York (Empire State College) in 1988.
Bob Herbert Wife
Bob is happily married to his wife Deborah Bial.
Bob Herbert Career
Herbert began his journalism career in 1970 with The Star-Ledger in New Jersey. Herbert went on to work as a writer and editor at the New York Daily News from 1976 to 1985, when he became a political columnist and editor, gaining recognition for his editorial work. This led to a position on WCBS-TV in New York as a founding panelist for Sunday Edition in 1990, as well as hosting Hotline, a weekly issues program on New York public television. He later worked as a national correspondent for NBC from 1991 to 1993, appearing often on The Today Show and NBC Nightly News.
Herbert’s journalistic achievements include the Meyer Berger Award for New York City reportage and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Outstanding Newspaper Writing. He also presided over the Pulitzer Prize jury for spot news reporting in 1993. Herbert is the author of Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream, which was published by Henry Holt & Company in 2005.
Herbert left The New York Times on March 25, 2011, with his final column, “Losing Our Way.”zXZeX5 Herbert was appointed Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a national think tank, in June 2011. When his fellowship was announced, it was also disclosed that he will write for Demos’ blog PolicyShop and The American Prospect magazine, which merged with Demos in 2010. In 2014, Herbert released his book Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America.
Herbert directed the documentary film Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class (2017), which examines issues of the Black middle class, structural racism, and discrimination using historical footage and interviews with Isabel Wilkerson, Maya Rockeymoore, Elijah Cummings, Alvin Poussaint, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Marc Morial. Herbert appears in the Seinfeld episode “The Big Salad” when character George Costanza’s girlfriend Julie discusses her favorite writers and says, “And Bob Herbert’s wonderful. “He’s the Daily News,” Costanza says, comparing Herbert’s name pronunciation to Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert.
Bob Herbert Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
