The IFE Media and Technology dinner (MTR) with Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief, Jerry Seib, hosted by Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium, H.E. Dirk Wouters was a timely and illuminating 2016 election update. The dinner was held at the residence on November 1st. By invitation only.
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About our Guest Speaker
Gerald Seib is the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. He oversees Washington coverage of a combined bureau of reporters and editors for both the Journal and Newswires, which provide coverage of the White House, Congress, politics, economics, the Supreme Court, national security affairs, health and regulatory issues. He also writes a weekly column, “Capital Journal,” which brings an insightful, predictive and original understanding to politics, national affairs and foreign policy. Mr. Seib appears regularly on networks such as Fox Business News, ABC and CNN as a commentator on Washington affairs.
Mr. Seib previously had served as Washington bureau chief for the Journal, and the Journal’s deputy Washington bureau chief. He began writing his column in the spring of 1993 and assumed responsibility for the Journal/NBC News poll.
Mr. Seib joined the Dallas bureau of the Journal as a reporter in 1978. He transferred to the Journal’s Washington bureau in 1980 and covered the Pentagon and the State Department. In 1984, he and his wife, Journal reporter Barbara Rosewicz, were transferred to Cairo to cover the Middle East. They returned to the Washington bureau in 1987 where he has covered the White House and reported on diplomacy and foreign policy. In December 1992, he became a news editor responsible for the Journal’s national political coverage from Washington and around the country.
In 1988, Mr. Seib won the Merriman Smith award, which honors coverage of the presidency under deadline, and the Aldo Beckman award for coverage of the White House and the presidency, and in 1990, he received the Gerald R. Ford Foundation prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency. In 1992, the Georgetown University Institute of Diplomacy awarded him the Weintal Prize for his coverage of the Gulf War. He received honorable mention in the Edwin Hood Prize for diplomatic reporting from the National Press Club in 1998.
Mr. Seib was part of the team from the Journal that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in the “breaking news” category for its coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In 2004, the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas named Mr. Seib the winner of the 2005 William Allen White Foundation’s national citation. Past winners of this award include the Journal’s Vermont Royster, Walter Cronkite and Bob Woodward. In 2009 he received the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis from the National Press Club for his Capital Journal columns on the presidential election In 2012, Mr. Seib won the Loeb Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to financial journalism. Mr. Seib is the co-author of the book “Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power.”
Mr. Seib earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While at the university, he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, a national academic honor society. He was also an intern in the Journal’s Dallas bureau, editor of the university’s newspaper, the Daily Kansan and a Sears Foundation congressional intern in the office of U.S. Representative Gilles Long of Louisiana.
He and his wife have three sons and live in Chevy Chase, Md.
