Bill Douglas

Bill Douglas is Knight Ridder White House correspondent who most recently covered the 2004 Bush re-election campaign.

The son of William and Dorothy Douglas of Columbia, S.C., he was born in Long Beach, Calif., but was raised primarily in Philadelphia.

Douglas received his print journalism degree from USC in 1980 and began his journalism career at The Charlotte Observer where he was a general assignment and education reporter. In 1983, he moved to the features staff of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A year later he joined the staff of the Evening Sun in Baltimore where he began as a general assignment reporter and later covered higher education.

In 1987, Douglas moved to New York to work for New York Newsday where he covered education and higher education. In 1993, Newsday sent Douglas to Washington to cover New York City’s congressional delegation. After covering Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996, Douglas shifted to the White House beat to cover Bill Clinton’s second term.

In 2000, Douglas covered Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign and later moved to the foreign affairs beat for Newsday. Douglas left Newsday in 2003 for the Washington Bureau of Knight Ridder.

He has received awards from the South Carolina chapter of SPJ, the Atlanta chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in Washington with his wife, Corinne McIntosh-Douglas, and twin daughters Helene and Nora.