David M. Shribman

David Shribman is an American journalist and author, with a career spanning many well-known newspapers. He has since turned to teaching.

Background Shribman won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. At the time, he served as the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, as well as a columnist.

His first job was at the city desk of the Buffalo Evening News. Subsequently, he served in national news and politics capacities at the same paper and at the Washington Star, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. he made the globally-recognized decision to publish a front-page, full-width headline, in Hebrew-Aramaic, of the opening of the Jewish mourner's prayer the Friday following the massacre.

Post-newspaper-career, he spent a period at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now on a longer term appointment as professor at McGill University, with plans to return to Carnegie Mellon.

While at the Post-Gazette, Shribman spearheaded the formation of Spotlight PA, a state politics reporting nonprofit serving multiple newspapers. and Richard Shribman. He attended Dartmouth, his father's alma mater, and daughter Elizabeth Shribman was an Associate Director of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra; Elizabeth was subsequently promoted to Chief of Staff.

He served as a trustee of Dartmouth, produced a history of the college, and sits on the board of a number of presidential libraries and journalism organizations.