John Dickerson
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John Frederick Dickerson (born July 6, 1968) is an American journalist and a reporter for CBS News.
His current assignment is 60 Minutes and CBS News' Election specials.
Most recently, he was co-host of CBS This Morning along with Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King..
He served as an interim anchor of the CBS Evening News until Norah O'Donnell took over in the summer of 2019.
Previously he was the host of Face the Nation on CBS News, the political director of CBS News, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, and a political columnist for Slate magazine. Before hosting Face the Nation, he was the longtime chief political correspondent at Slate.
Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as its White House correspondent.
Early life
A native of Washington, D.C., Dickerson is the son of Claude Wyatt Dickerson and journalist Nancy Dickerson (née Hanschman; later Whitehead). He has three sisters and one brother. He grew up in McLean, Virginia, at Merrywood, a Georgian-style mansion high on a leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac River.
Dickerson graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1987. During high school he had an internship in the office of John Warner, then a U.S. Senator from Virginia. He holds a degree in English with distinction from the University of Virginia.
Career
On Her Trail, Dickerson's book about his relationship with his late mother Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, a pioneering television newswoman, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. In a Washington Post review, staff writer Elsa Walsh called the book "riveting".
Before joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics at Time magazine for 12 years, serving the last four years as its White House correspondent.
Dickerson hosted Face the Nation three times in 2009 and was appointed Political Director of CBS News in November 2011. He appeared each Wednesday on The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio, until the show ended in 2007, and was also a frequent guest on NPR's Day to Day. He appears on PBS's Washington Week and the Slate Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. Dickerson is also the host of Whistlestop, a Slate podcast about presidential history.
Dickerson took over as host of Face the Nation on June 7, 2015. He served as host for 2 1/2 years until signing off on January 21, 2018. Shortly after this, Dickerson was named the new co-anchor of CBS This Morning.
He is the author of, most recently, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency. Publishers Weekly described it as an “evenhanded and insightful look at the evolution of the American presidency.” He is also the author of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History, published by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, on August 2, 2016.
In November 2018, John Dickerson contributed a few educational videos to the Khan Academy during the 2018 midterm elections.
On May 10, 2019, CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said that Dickerson would fill in for a week (week of May 13, 2019) on the CBS Evening News after then-anchor Jeff Glor stepped down. Glor was replaced by Norah O'Donnell on July 15, 2019. CBS News would use a rotating series of anchors to staff the broadcast until O'Donnell took over, Zirinsky said. On September 6, 2020, Dickerson substituted for Margaret Brennan on CBS' Face the Nation.
