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Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with '' The Oregonian '', the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, and at '''The Dallas Times Herald'''. He joined '' The New York Times '' in 1984 and served in the following capacities: # Reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau (1984 - 1986) # Reporter in the Moscow bureau (1986 - 1988) # Bureau chief in the Moscow bureau (1988- 1991) # Bureau chief in the Johannesburg bureau (1992 -1995) # Foreign editor in the New York City bureau (1995- 1997) # Managing editor in the New York City bureau (1997 - 2001) # Op-ed columnist and senior writer in the New York City bureau (2001 - 2003) # Executive editor in the New York City bureau from July 2003 to the present. Keller won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his reporting on the breakup of the former Soviet Union . Keller spoke on July 6 , 2005 in defense of Judith Miller and her refusal to give up documents relating to the Valerie Plame case. Keller is reported to have refused to answer questions from the Times Public Editor, Byron Calame, on the timing of the December 16 , 2005 article on the National Security Agency (NSA) classifed communications intercept program. The source of the disclosure of the classifed NSA program is being investigated by the United States Justice Department . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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