Howard Fineman is one of the country’s foremost reporters and
commentators. As Newsweek’s Chief Political Correspondent, Senior
Editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief, he leads the magazine’s
award-winning political coverage. He also is a news analyst for NBC and
its cable networks, MSNBC and CNBC, appearing regularly on Hardball
with Chris Matthews and The News with Brian Williams and
reporting for The Today Show and Dateline.
Fineman has covered every president since Jimmy Carter, and was among
the first journalists to report on the rise of George W. Bush, who Fineman
first interviewed in 1987 and first wrote about in 1994. Since then, he
has written dozens of stories about Bush, including five cover stories,
the last featuring the president’s first extensive interview after the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
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As a reporter and writer, Fineman ranges widely. Fineman has interviewed
and written about every major presidential candidate since 1984, but also
has interviewed leaders of business (Bill Gates, Steve Case, Steve
Ballmer, Robert Rubin and Ted Turner) and entertainment (Warren Beatty,
Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Jay Leno, Rush Limbaugh, Aaron Sorkin).
Overseas, Fineman has reported for the magazine and MSNBC from Vietnam,
China, Turkey and the U.K. Though Fineman now reports exclusively on
television for NBC, he has appeared on most major news programs.
Fineman’s Newsweek work has helped the magazine win three National
Magazine Awards (in 1982, 1992 and 1999). He has won or shared in several
other awards, including a New York Headliner’s Club "Page One" and an
American Bar Association "Silver Gavel." Newsweek’s political coverage
repeatedly has been judged "Best in the Business" by The American
Journalism Review. Fineman has served as a judge for the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Awards. His freelance writing has appeared in The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic and Forbes.com. He
contributed to the book Campaign for President, published by Harvard’s
Institute of Politics.
Fineman earned a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, at Colgate, an M.S. in
Journalism at Columbia, and a law degree at the University of Louisville
and Georgetown, where he was a visiting student in 1979-80. He received
Watson and Pulitzer Traveling Fellowships for study in Europe, Russia,
Ukraine, Lithuania and the Middle East.
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