David Lieberman

• Bachelors: Washington University (St. Louis)
• Masters: MA, University of Michigan; Columbia University - Certificate in Economics and Business Journalism

Corporate:

• Senior Media Reporter, USA Today
• Reporter, TV Guide
• Media Editor, BusinessWeek
• Reporter, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
• Editorial Writer, The Hartford Courant
• Reporter, The Hartford Advocate

• Media and entertainment business
• Media and the public interest

David Lieberman is the Senior Media Reporter for the Money section of USA TODAY, which he joined in December 1993. He has led its coverage of major deals (including Disney-Capital Cities/ABC, Time Warner-Turner Broadcasting, and AOL-Time Warner) as well as the business and social implications of the digital media revolution. He also leads the USA TODAY CEO Forum, conducting in-depth interviews with chief executives including Microsoft’s Steven Ballmer, General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt, American Express’ Kenneth Chenault, and Kraft’s Irene Rosenfeld.

Prior to joining USA TODAY, he covered the business of television and television news as a reporter and editor for TV Guide. He came to the magazine from Business Week where he was Media and Entertainment Editor. His assignments included coverage of the Time-Warner merger and the changes in network television business.

David spent three years covering business and the economy for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, which he joined at its launch as the country’s first hour-long nightly newscast. He began his career in Connecticut where he won awards for his editorial writing as a member of the editorial board of The Hartford Courant andfor his investigative reporting at The Hartford Advocate.

David spent the 2003-2004 academic year at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow, a program that gives 10 business journalists the opportunity to study at its graduate schools. In 2001 he won a Maxwell Media Award for his coverage of the cable industry. He was twice named to TJFR Business News Reporter’s “Blue Chip Newsroom” business journalism all-star team. In 1996, he delivered the 30th Annual Carlos McClatchy Memorial Lecture at Stanford University. He has freelanced for the Media Studies Journal, The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Washington Journalism Review, Media Critic, The New Republic, and Worth Magazine. His essay on Hollywood mergers appears in the book “Conglomerates and the Media,” published by The New Press.

David earned M.A. degrees in American Culture and in Journalism in 1978 at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also received his B.A. (cum laude) in 1975 at Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in History and Political Science —and founded a campus alternative newspaper.