David Shipley is an American journalist. He is currently deputy editorial page editor and Op-Ed editor of The New York Times.
Shipley became deputy editorial page editor in January 2007, concurrent with Andrew Rosenthal being promoted from deputy to editorial page editor. Shipley had been Op-Ed editor since January 2003. Previously, he was the national enterprise editor for The Times since January 2001. Before that, Shipley was 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.
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. Shipley first began at 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 was born in Portland, Oregon in 1963 and has two children with former wife Naomi Wolf (they divorced in 2005).
Censorship Controversy
On the 18th July, Mr Shipley refused to print an op-ed article authored by John McCain in rebuttal to an op-ed piece by Barack Obama, published on July 14,2008. Shipley said the Obama piece 'worked' for him because it contained new information, but insisted that McCain's article "lay out a clear plan for achieving victory — with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the senator's Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan."[1] in order for it to be published in a revised version.
The McCain campaign has released both McCain's unpublished op-ed and Shipley's correspondence to the public.
Many have cited this incident as an example of the political bias of the New York Times, a suspicion heightened by Shipley's background in the Clinton administration.
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