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Maureen Dowd (Maureen Brigid Dowd) was born on 14 January, 1952 in Washington, D.C., U.S., is an American journalist. Discover Maureen Dowd's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Maureen Brigid Dowd
Occupation Journalist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January, 1952
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace Washington, D.C., U.S.
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1952

Maureen Brigid Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.

1969

In 1969, Dowd graduated from Immaculata High School.

1970

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles.

1973

In 1973, she received a B.A. in English from the Catholic University of America.

1974

Dowd entered journalism in 1974 as a dictationist for the Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer.

1981

When the Star closed in 1981, Dowd worked for Time.

1983

She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995.

In 1983, Dowd joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter.

1986

Dowd began serving as correspondent in the Times Washington bureau in 1986.

1991

In 1991, Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University.

1992

In 1992, she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting, and in 1994 she won a Matrix Award from New York Association for Women in Communications.

1995

Dowd became a columnist on The New York Times op-ed page in 1995, replacing Anna Quindlen.

1996

Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996, and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished commentary.

1999

In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

Dowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, DC.

Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" (Meenehan), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, DC, police inspector.

2000

She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.

For example, in the run-up to the 2000 presidential election she wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating," while referring to the Democratic Party as the "mommy party."

2009

A 2009 study of sexism towards Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the 2008 election observed that Dowd had disparaged Palin as a "Barbie" over her pageantry past.

2010

In 2010, Dowd was ranked No. 43 on The Daily Telegraph's list of the 100 most influential liberals in America; in 2007, she was ranked No. 37 on the same list.

Dowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen's humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take."

Dowd herself has said, "She is in my head in the sense that I want to inform and amuse the reader."

Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style.

Her columns display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

She also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames.

For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W" and former Vice President Dick Cheney as "Big Time"; and she has called former President Barack Obama "Spock" and "Barry."

Her interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism from some early in her career, such as this: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy."

Because Dowd perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics, she often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary.

For instance, in a Times video debate she said of the North Korean government that "you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting," drawing out a similarity between their reaction and high school girls with nuclear weapons who just wanted attention.

Dowd's columns have also been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration.

2014

In a Fresh Dialogues interview years later, she said of Gore:"I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. That's not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was—sometimes—a pompous messenger for them."In January 2014, Dowd recounted that after eating about one-fourth of a cannabis-infused chocolate bar while touring the legalized recreational cannabis industry, she was later told she should have only eaten one-sixteenth —but that this had not been in the instructions on the label.

She went on to describe her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a June 3, 2014 New York Times op-ed, following up on this story in another op-ed in September 2014, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" Willie Nelson.

On March 4, 2014, Dowd published a column about the dominance of men in the film industry in which she quoted Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

According to BuzzFeed, "leaked emails from Sony" suggested that Dowd had promised to provide the draft column to Pascal's husband, Bernard Weinraub, prior to the column's publication.

BuzzFeed said the column "painted Pascal in such a good light that she engaged in a round of mutual adulation with Dowd over email after its publication."

Both Dowd and Weinraub have denied that Weinraub ever received the column.

On December 12, 2014, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan concluded, "While the tone of the email exchanges is undeniably gushy, I don't think Ms. Dowd did anything unethical here."

In August 2014, it was announced that Dowd would become a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Her first article under the new arrangement was published more than a year later.

Dowd has been accused of sexism by Clark Hoyt, then-public editor of The New York Times.

2017

A 2017 study which examined sexualized shaming of Monica Lewinsky in mainstream news coverage stated that in Dowd's extensive writings about Lewinsky, she repeatedly "mocked and disparaged her."