About David Shipley
David Shipley became New York Times deputy editorial page editor in January 2007 and Op-Ed editor in January 2003. Previously, Mr. Shipley had been the national enterprise editor since January 2001. Before that, he had been senior editor of The New York Times Magazine from December 1999 until December 2000 and deputy editor of the Magazine’s Millennium Project from April 1998 until November 1999.
Mr. Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter. He had been the executive editor of The New Republic Magazine from 1993 until 1995. Mr. Shipley first came to The Times in September 1990 as an assigning editor for the Op-Ed page. He received a B.A. in English from Williams College and was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He is the co-author of “Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.” He was born in Portland, Oregon in 1963 and has two children.