Mr. Timothy J. Russert Moderator, Meet
the Press; Anchor, MSNBC; Anchor, CNBC's Tim Russert; Senior Vice President and
Washington Bureau Chief, NBC News
Tim Russert is the Moderator of
Meet the Press and political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today Program.
He anchors The Tim Russert Show, a weekly interview program on CNBC and is a contributing
anchor for MSNBC. Mr. Russert also serves as senior vice president and Washington
bureau chief of NBC News. Mr. Russert took over the helm of Meet the Press
in December 1991. Since then, MTP has become the most watched Sunday morning interview
program in America and the most quoted news program in the world. Now in its 53rd
year, Meet the Press is the longest running program in the history of television.
Mr. Russert has interviewed every major figure on the American political scene. Mr.
Russert joined NBC News in 1984. In April 1985, he supervised the live broadcasts
of the Today program from Rome, negotiating and arranging an appearance by Pope
John Paul II, a first for American television. In 1986 and 1987 Russert led NBC
News weeklong broadcasts from, South America, Australia and China. He has
received twenty two honorary doctorate degrees from American colleges and universities.
He has lectured at the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan Presidential Libraries.
In 2001, Washingtonian Magazine named Tim Russert the best and most influential
journalist in Washington, D. C. describing Meet the Press as "the most interesting
and important hour on television." His Election 2000 Meet the Press interviews
with George W. Bush and Al Gore won the Radio and Television Correspondents' highest
honor, the .Town S. Barone Award and the Annenberg Center's Walter Cronkite Award
and his March 2000 interview of Senator John McCain shared the 2001 Edward R..
Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television Journalism. He is also the recipient
of the John Peter Zenger Award, the American Legion Journalism Award and the Allen
H. Neuharth award for Excellence in Journalism. He is a trustee of the
Freedom Forum's Newseum and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater
Washington Boys and Girls Club and America's Promise Alliance for Youth. In 1995,
the National Father's Day Committee named him "Father of the Year," Parents magazine
honored him as "Dream Dad" in 1998, and in 2001 the National Fatherhood Initiative
also recognized him as Father of the Year. Irish America magazine has named him
one of the top 100 Irish Americans in the country and he was selected as a Fellow
of the Commission of European Communities. Mr. Russert was born in Buffalo,
New York on May 7, 1950. He is a graduate of Canisius High School, John Carroll
University and with honors from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Before
joining NBC News, Mr. Russert observed firsthand the inner workings of the executive
and legislative branches of government as counselor in the New York Governor's
office in Albany in 1983 anti 1984 and a special counsel in the United States
Senate from 1977 to 1982. He is admitted to the bar in New York and the District
of Columbia. Mr. Russert is married to Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity
Fair magazine. They live in Washington, D.C. with their son, Luke. |