Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has reported on national and international issues for 33 years -- from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and, for the last 25 years, Washington.  His weekly column on the op-ed page of the Times delivers original reporting and analysis on a wide range of issues.

   McManus is a four-time winner of the National Press Club’s Edwin Hood Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy, most recently in 2004 for articles on the U.S. occupation of Iraq.  He has also won Georgetown University’s Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting and other awards.

   From 1996 until 2008 he was the Times’s Washington bureau chief, leading a team of 40 reporters and editors that won recognition as one of the nation’s best news operations. 

   McManus is author or coauthor of three books including Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988, named by The New York Times as one of the most notable books of 1988.   He appears frequently on PBS’s ‘‘Washington Week with Gwen Ifill” and other broadcast programs; he was a questioner in the primary election debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2008.

   McManus joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 after three years as a foreign correspondent for United Press International.  He has worked for the Times in Los Angeles, Tehran, Beirut, Central America, New York and Washington, where he served as a State Department reporter and White House correspondent before he was named bureau chief in 1996. 

   His work for the Times has appeared in many newspapers including The Washington Post, the Financial Times (UK), Die Welt (Germany) and Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan).  He has also written for Foreign Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated and the London Daily Express.

   McManus, 56, graduated from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Brussels.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford and the Board of Visitors of the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.  He was a member of Stanford’s board of trustees from 1988 to 1993.