Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Jesajan-Dorja Marshall (born February 15, 1969) is an American journalist and blogger[1] who founded Talking Points Memo.[2] A liberal, he currently presides over a network of progressive-oriented sites that operate under the TPM Media banner and average 400,000-page views every weekday[3] and 750,000 unique visitors every month.[4][5]
For the 17th century Kings Master Mason of England, see Joshua Marshall (sculptor).
Josh Marshall
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Marshall and his work have been profiled by The New York Times,[4] the Los Angeles Times,[6] the Financial Times,[7] National Public Radio,[8] The New York Times Magazine,[9] the Columbia Journalism Review,[3] Bill Moyers Journal,[10] and GQ.[11][12] Hendrik Hertzberg, a senior editor at The New Yorker, compared Marshall to the influential founders of Time magazine, saying: "Marshall is in the line of the great light-bulb-over-the-head editors. He's like Briton Hadden or Henry Luce. He's created something new."[3]
Early life and career[edit]
Marshall was born in St. Louis, Missouri.[3][7] Marshall's father was a professor of marine biology. His mother died when he was young.[13]
He is a graduate of the Webb Schools of California and Princeton University and earned a PhD in American history from Brown University.[3][7] In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as Lawrence Lessig.[3]
Marshall began writing freelance articles about Internet free speech for The American Prospect in 1997 and was soon hired as an associate editor.[3] He worked for the Prospect for three years[13] and in 1999 moved to D.C. to become their Washington editor.[3]
He often clashed with the top editors at the Prospect, over both ideology and the direction of the website.[3]