Bill Keller
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Bill Keller (born June 18, 1949) is executive editor of The New York Times.
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 The Dallas Times Herald.
He joined The New York Times in 1984 and served as a reporter in the Washington bureau (1984-1986), a reporter (1986-1988) and bureau chief (1988-1991) in the Moscow bureau, Johannesburg bureau chief (1992-1995), foreign editor (1995-1997), managing editor (1997-2001), and op-ed columnist and senior writer (2001-2003) before being named executive editor in September 2003. Keller won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his reporting on the Soviet Union.