Phil Bronstein Biography
Phil Bronstein is a journalist and editor from the United States. He is the executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his work as an investigative journalist and war correspondent.
How old is Phil Bronstein?- Age
He is 73 years old as of October 2023. Phil was born on 4 October 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
Phil Bronstein Education
Bronstein studied at the University of California, Davis but did not graduate. He got his first taste of journalism while at Davis.
Phil Bronstein Wife- Spouse
Bronstein has been married four times, and his marital life has been closely followed by the tabloid media.
On February 14, 1998, he married Sharon Stone, a well-known American actress, producer, and former fashion model. Roan Joseph Bronstein, the couple’s first child, was adopted in 2000. Bronstein filed for divorce in 2003, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason. The divorce was finalized on January 29, 2004, and while Bronstein and Stone initially shared joint custody of Roan, a judge granted Bronstein full custody of the latter in 2008. Bronstein married Christine Borders, daughter of Borders Book Store co-founder Louis Borders, in 2006. She founded “A Band of Wives,” a women’s social network. The couple has two kids.
Phil Bronstein Career
His first professional job was working as a reporter for ‘KQED-TV’ in San Francisco. In 1980, he was hired as a beat reporter for ‘The San Francisco Examiner,’ the flagship of the Hearst Corporation chain. For the next eight years, he traveled the world as a foreign correspondent, reporting from conflict zones such as the Philippines, El Salvador, Peru, and the Middle East. He reported the overthrow of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines as President from 1965 to 1986. In 1991, he was promoted to executive editor of ‘The San Francisco Examiner’. He held the position for nearly a decade, until 2000.
Bronstein, a brave soul, once donned scuba gear to assist in the capture of an alligator that had escaped into a city lake in 1996. However, the police prevented him from engaging in such a dangerous operation. On July 27, 2000, Hearst Corporation purchased the ‘San Francisco Chronicle,’ a daily newspaper that primarily serves the San Francisco Bay Area and is considered a major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. The owner of ‘The San Francisco Examiner,’ Hearst, then decided to merge the two rival newsrooms. Bronstein was appointed Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in November 2000.
He went on to create new features, make personnel changes, and try to bring the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’ into the Internet era while maintaining the Bay Area’s cultural perspective. He reduced the number of employees and the daily paper content. He was appointed as the ‘San Francisco Chronicle’ and Hearst Newspapers’ editor-at-large. He was a weekly columnist for the ‘San Francisco Chronicle.’ He also contributed to the SFGate.com blog.
Phil Bronstein Awards
Bronstein was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1986 for his reporting on the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines’ long-serving dictator. The Associated Press, the Overseas Press Club, the World Affairs Council, and the Media Alliance all recognized Bronstein’s work in the Philippines.
Phil Bronstein Net Worth
Phil has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.