Sunshine Week Home Page » Contact »

David Westphal Bio

Published: May 22, 2006
Last Updated: May 22, 2006

David Westphal is Washington editor of McClatchy Newspapers, the 2nd-largest newspaper company in the United States. Westphal joined McClatchy in 1995 as deputy bureau chief and was named bureau chief in January 1998. Previously, he was managing editor of The Des Moines Register in Iowa for almost seven years.

He has been a newspaper editor and reporter for 35 years and has served in a variety of roles, including Washington correspondent, sports editor and projects reporter. Westphal has won the National Press Club's Washington Correspondence award and is two-time winner of the John Hancock Award for Business and Financial reporting. While he was managing editor of The Des Moines Register, the newspaper won the Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Westphal currently is co-chair of the Freedom of Information Committee for the American Society of Newspaper Editors.