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David McCumber
Verified
Executive Editor, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson
Beats
Biography
David McCumber is Washington Bureau Chief for the Hearst Corporation’s Newspaper Division. McCumber’s journalistic career spans four decades. He has worked for Hearst in a variety of other roles, including Sunday editor, City Editor and Assistant Managing Editor of the San Francisco Examiner; Managing Editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and Editorial Director of Hearst Connecticut Media Group. He has also worked for Scripps-Howard, Pulitzer and the New York Times Co. McCumber is the author of three books of nonfiction and the co-author of another. He wrote "X-Rated: The Mitchell Brothers" (Simon & Schuster, 1992); Playing off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey (Random House, 1995); and "The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch" (Avon Books, 1999). With investigative reporter Andrew Schneider, he wrote "An Air That Kills: How the Asbestos Poisoning of Libby, Montana, Uncovered a National Scandal" (Putnam, 2004), which was a finalist for a New York Public Library Bernstein Award. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Special Local Reporting in 1984. He was also founding editor and publisher of Big Sky Journal magazine. McCumber was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2010 and 2011.
environment nuclearpolitics
Entertainment, Lifestyle, and sports.
Content
By David McCumber Verified| Arizona Daily Star Verified What’s the best thing about The Arizona Daily Star and Tucson.com? Easy: Our readers. Closely followed by our employees. When things get tough in this business — and they are plenty tough right now, don’t worry — that always becomes clear. The challenges of newspapering, and news-website-ing, in the 2020s are well-known.
By David McCumber Verified| Montana Standard Verified Must our politicians’ knees jerk so predictably, and so thoughtlessly? U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., clearly believed he was correctly reflecting the will of his constituency – and his donor base – when he sent out a news release Tuesday headlined “Daines Statement on Obama’s Unlawful Gun Grab.”It took another few minutes for U.S. Rep.
By David McCumber Verified| Arizona Daily Star Verified What’s the best thing about The Arizona Daily Star and Tucson.com? Easy: Our readers. Closely followed by our employees. When things get tough in this business — and they are plenty tough right now, don’t worry — that always becomes clear. The challenges of newspapering, and news-website-ing, in the 2020s are well-known.
Company Info
Arizona Daily Star
The Arizona Daily Star is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, serving the Southern Arizona community since its founding in 1877. Owned by Lee Enterprises, it provides comprehensive news coverage, including local, national, and international stories. The newspaper has a daily circulation of approximately 39,500 and 45,848 copies on Sundays. The Arizona Daily Star offers both print and digital news, with a robust online platform that features subscription-based access to articles, obituaries, and an extensive archive of over 2.1 million searchable pages dating back to 1879. The paper includes special sections for obituaries, marriages, and community announcements, catering to local residents, businesses, and researchers. It is recognized for its high factual reporting and has a Left-Center bias, reflecting its commitment to credible journalism.
Tucson, Arizona, United States
+1 800-695-4492