David McCumber - Profile and Journalist Details
Find journalists that align with your industry, location and vision. Unlock David McCumber's full journalist profile, including location, coverage topics, current employer, biography and preferences. Sign up today and start building journalist relationships that fuel your startup's growth.
Get connected with journalists today
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
Company Info
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona, United States
+1 800-695-4492