Steve Roberts

Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than 35 years, covering some of the major events of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the 60s and 70s to President Reagan's historic trip to Moscow in 1988 and nine presidential election campaigns. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in 1964, he joined The New York Times as research assistant to James 'Scotty' Reston, then the paper's Washington bureau chief. His 25-year career with the Times included assignments as bureau chief in Los Angeles and Athens, and as Congressional and White House correspondent.

He was a senior writer at U.S. News for seven years where he is now a contributing editor. Roberts and his wife, TV journalist Cokie Roberts, write a nationally-syndicated newspaper column and are contributing writers for USA Weekend, a Sunday magazine that appears in 500 newspapers nationwide. In February of 2000 they published From This Day Forward, an account of their 35-year marriage, as well as other marriages in American history.

A well-known commentator on many Washington-based TV shows, Roberts also appears regularly on the ABC radio network and as substitute host on National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show. Since 1997 he has been the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, where he has taught for the last thirteen years. Steve and Cokie have two children: Lee, an investment banker in London, and Rebecca, a journalist in San Francisco, and five grand-children.