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Richard Oppel (Richard A. Oppel) was born on 30 January, 1943 in Newark, N.J., is an American journalist. Discover Richard Oppel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Richard A. Oppel
Occupation journalist and editor
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 30 January 1943
Birthday 30 January
Birthplace Newark, N.J.
Nationality United States

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1943

Richard A. Oppel (born Jan. 30, 1943 in Newark, N.J.) is an American newspaper, magazine and digital editor living in Austin, Texas.

1960

He graduated from Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1960 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, serving six months on active duty.

1963

In 1963, Oppel began his news career as a reporter covering police and rural news at The Tampa Tribune.

1964

He graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.A. degree in political science in 1964.

1965

He joined The Associated Press in 1965 in the state capital bureau in Tallahassee.

1967

In 1967, he was named Tampa correspondent, and in 1969 night news editor in Miami.

The same year, he was named correspondent in charge of the Tallahassee bureau.

1972

He became state news editor in Miami in 1972, and in 1973 was promoted to Michigan chief of bureau in Detroit.

1976

Oppel left AP in 1976 to join Knight-Ridder Newspapers.

His first job was as associate editor of the Detroit Free Press.

1977

In 1977 he became executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, where he led the staff in conversion of the newspaper from afternoon to morning publication.

1978

While Oppel was editor of The Charlotte Observer (1978–1993), the newspaper earned three Pulitzer Prizes, sharing one for editorial cartoons with The Atlanta Constitution.

Oppel is the son of the late Alfred W. and Jane G. Oppel.

In 1978, Oppel was named editor and vice president of The Charlotte Observer, the largest newspaper in the Carolinas.

1981

The first, awarded in 1981, was for “Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect,” an investigation of how cotton dust in textile mills caused the disease of byssinosis among workers.

1988

In 1988, The Observer won its second Meritorious Public Service medal for revealing misuse of funds by the PTL television ministry operated by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.

1993

He served in that position until 1993, when he took over the Knight-Ridder Washington bureau as chief of bureau.

1995

Oppel left Knight-Ridder to become editor and vice president of the Austin American-Statesman in 1995, retiring from that position in 2008.

2000

In 2000–2001, he was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the largest organization of newspaper editors.

At that time, the membership was 600.

From 2000 until 2009, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and, in 2008–2009, was co-chair of the board.

While editor of The Charlotte Observer, Oppel led that newspaper to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Meritorious Public Service – the gold medals – considered the highest prize in journalism.

2009

In 2009 Oppel began work as senior vice president/media for Public Strategies Inc. (PSI) of Austin, serving as a strategy adviser to national firms in finance, law, computers, airlines, energy and telecommunications.

2010

In 2010, PSI merged with Hill & Knowlton to become Hill+Knowlton Strategies.

Both firms were owned by the WPP Group.

2012

He left H&K in 2012 to serve as a visiting professor of journalism at Huston–Tillotson University, a historically black institution of 1,000 students in Austin.

2014

In 2014 he was named interim vice president for institutional advancement, and helped raise money and lead construction of the Sandra Joy Anderson Community Health and Wellness Center to provide medical care to students and low-income residents in neighborhoods surrounding the university.

2016

He left HT in early 2016.

Oppel worked as senior vice president of Crosswind Media & Public Relations of Austin in 2016–2017, representing diverse clients in energy, infrastructure and healthcare, including trade associations before the Texas Legislature.

Taliaferro was hired after Hobby’s private equity firm, Genesis Park Partners, bought the magazine in October 2016.

2018

He was interim editor-in-chief (May 5, 2018 – Feb. 1, 2019) of Texas Monthly, an Austin-based publication with a statewide readership of 2.4 million.

The magazine covers the Texas scene, from politics, the environment, industry and education to music, the arts, travel, restaurants, museums and cultural events.

On Feb. 1, 2018, Oppel was hired by owner Paul Hobby to serve as ombudsman of Texas Monthly after Tim Taliaferro, then the editor-in-chief, drew media criticism for allegedly entering into an arrangement with the dating app Bumble.

According to Columbia Journalism Review, Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd would appear on the cover in exchange for a $25,000–30,000 social-media push by the dating company.

Taliaferro denied there was any arrangement, saying the cover decision had been made before the social-media push was discussed.

After Oppel served briefly as ombudsman, Hobby announced that Oppel would become interim editor-in-chief of the Monthly on May 5, 2018.

2020

In March 2020, Oppel was named editorial advisor of a digital news start-up, Austonia.com, founded by CEO and publisher Mark Dewey.

The news site covers news, features and entertainment in Austin.

Oppel has served as vice president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, president of the North Carolina Press Association, and chair of the North Carolina First Amendment Association.

He served as a member and then chair of the Journalism Advisory Committee of the Knight Foundation, a $2 billion foundation that distributed grants to journalism organizations and supported the transformation of the industry toward digital news with high standards.