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David McCumber

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Executive editor, Arizona Daily Star. 9 years with Lee Enterprises. Author of 4 books of nonfiction. Cubs sufferer. Pool player, coffee addict.
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David McCumber’s 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.