Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus (born May 5, 1953) who appears often on Public Broadcasting Service's Washington Week.

Early life Doyle Daniel McManus is the first-born son of Lois Doyle and James R. McManus, who was a San Francisco advertising executive. His younger brothers include Chris (born 1955) and Reed (born 1956).

He earned an A.B. in history at Stanford University in 1974, and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Brussels.

Career As an undergraduate, McManus worked on the Stanford Daily.

He was a foreign correspondent for three years at the United Press International, beginning in Brussels.

He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978, reporting from Los Angeles, the Middle East, Central America, New York. He transferred to the Times'''s Washington, D.C., bureau in 1983, where he covered the U.S. State Department, and White House. He succeeded Jack Nelson as bureau chief in 1996. In November 2008, the financially troubled Tribune Company made him a columnist when it closed the Los Angeles Times bureau in favor of a single Washington bureau for all its newspapers.

Memberships and awards Committee to Protect Journalists Council on Foreign Relations Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Steering Committee Stanford's board of trustees, from 1988 to 1993