Gerald F. Seib

Gerald F. Seib has been a journalist with the Wall Street Journal for almost 45 years. He served as the journal’s executive Washington editor and wrote the weekly “Capital Journal” column for 29 years. Previously the Washington bureau chief and political editor of the journal, he also reported from the Middle East for the journal in the mid-1980s and covered the White House from 1987 through 1992. He has moderated three presidential debates and interviewed every president since Ronald Reagan. He was part of a team of reporters and editors that won the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for coverage of 9/11. He won the William Allen White Foundation National Citation Award in 2005 and the National Press Club’s award for political analysis in 2009, and he was also the recipient of the Merriman Smith Award for coverage of the presidency, the Aldo Beckman Award for coverage of the White House, and the Gerald R. Ford Foundation journalism prize. He has been a commentator on CNBC, PBS’s Washington Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press. Mr. Seib is author of We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump, a Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution (Random House, 2020) and, with John Harwood, of Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power (Random House, 2008). He has served as a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and is a past president of the Gridiron Club and past chairman of the National Press Foundation. Mr. Seib is a graduate of the University of Kansas.