Gerald F. Seib Biography

Gerald Seib is the Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. He is responsible for the Journal’s news and analysis from Washington. He also developed the digital edition of the Washington bureau that includes his own column and commentaries a real-time version of Washington Wire and other features and columns. Mr. Seib appears regularly on networks such as CNBC Fox Business Network CNN and the BBC as a commentator on Washington affairs. He also writes a weekly column “Capital Journal” which brings an insightful predictive and original understanding to politics national affairs and foreign policy. He also has responsibility for The Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls.

Previously Mr. Seib had been the Journal’s deputy bureau chief in Washington since September 1997. He began writing his Capital Journal column in the spring of 1993.

Mr. Seib joined the Dallas bureau of the Journal as a reporter in 1978. He transferred to the Journal's Washington bureau in 1980 and covered the Pentagon and the State Department. In 1984 he and his wife Journal reporter Barbara Rosewicz were transferred to Cairo to cover the Middle East. They returned to the Washington bureau in 1987 where he has covered the White House and reported on diplomacy and foreign policy. In December 1992 he became a news editor responsible for the Journal's national political coverage from Washington and around the country.

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