David Nyhan

David Nyhan was a columnist and associate editor at the Boston Globe. Nyhan covered nine presidential elections in a career that took him to every state and twenty foreign countries. He was a frequent commentator on politics for CNN, C-SPAN, New England Cable News and public television in Boston. Prior to joining the Globe, Nyhan wrote for the Associated Press and the Evening News in Salem, Massachusetts. In 30 years at the Globe, he was State House bureau chief, congressional and White House correspondent in the Washington bureau, assistant managing editor in charge of news, and directed the paper’s political coverage. As a political columnist, he wrote three times a week on current events. He wrote a book about the 1988 presidential campaign. In 1996 he took a leave from the Globe to be a Reuter Foundation Fellow at Oxford University. Nyhan graduated from Harvard in 1962. He examined issues of fairness in journalism in the context of the Internet, webcasting and television. Nyhan died unexpectedly in early 2005. The Shorenstein Center annually awards the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism in his honor.