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{{Short description|American journalist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Steven V. Roberts
| NAMEimage = Roberts, Steven V. Roberts 2010.jpg▼
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|2|11}}▼
| caption = Roberts in 2010
| birth_place = [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], U.S.▼
▲| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|2|11}}
| education = [[Bayonne High School]]▼
▲| birth_place = [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], U.S.
| alma_matereducation = [[Harvard University]] ([[B. A.|BA]])
| occupation = journalist, writer, political commentator
| relatives = twin Marc J. Roberts (deceased) [[Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.]] (brother-in-law)<br>[[Barbara Boggs Sigmund]] (sister-in-law)<br>[[Hale Boggs]] (father-in-law)<br>[[Lindy Boggs]] (mother-in-law)<br>Daniel J. Hartman (son-in-law)<br>William Robertson Boggs (brother-in-law, deceased)<br> six grandchildren<br>Paul Sigmund, Jr. (nephew-in-law)<br>David Sigmund (nephew-in-law)<br>Stephen Sigmund (nephew-in-law)<br>[[William C. C. Claiborne]] (ancestor-in-law)<br>[[DeLesseps Story Morrison]] (second cousin, once removed-in-law)
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Cokie Roberts]]|1966|2019|end=her death}}
| children = [[Lee Roberts (finance executive)|Lee Roberts]]<br>[[Rebecca Roberts]]
| spouse = [[Cokie Roberts]]
}}
'''Steven V. Roberts''' (born February 11, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[journalist]], [[writer]], and [[political commentator]].
 
==Life and career==
Roberts was born to secular Jewish parents in [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], and graduated from [[Bayonne High School]].<ref>{{citeRahman, newsSarah. |[http://www.nj.com/bayonne/index.ssf/2009/12/author_steven_v_roberts_pays_a.html work=The"Author JerseySteven JournalV. |Roberts publisher=Thepays Eveninga Journalvisit Associationto |hometown of Bayonne"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', date=December 511, 2009. |Accessed title=AuthorMarch Roberts19, comes2017. to"For Bayonneauthor |Steven url=http://wwwV.nj.com/news/jjournal/bayonne/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1259997955315960.xml&coll=3 |Roberts, accessdate=DecemberBayonne 5will always be the home to come back to, 2009}}despite travels across continents and moving from one corner of the world to the next."</ref> He attended [[Harvard University]], where he served as editor of the student newspaper, ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]''. After graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as research assistant to [[James Reston]], then the paper's [[Washington, D.C.]] bureau chief. He was a senior writer at ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' for seven years, where he isand nowlater a contributing editor. As a Washington [[pundit (politics)|pundit]], Roberts appears regularly on [[Citadel Media|ABC Radio]], ''[[Washington Week in Review]]'', [[CNN]], ''[[Hardball with Chris Matthews]]''. He often fillsfilled in as substitute host of ''[[The Diane Rehm Show]]'' on [[NPR]] (National Public Radio). He also appears regularly on ''[[America Abroad]]''. Roberts has taught journalism and political communication at [[The George Washington University]]'s School of Media and Public Affairs since 1997.
 
Roberts and his wife, [[Cokie Roberts]], writewrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column and arewere contributing writers for ''[[USA Weekend]]'', a Sunday magazine that appears in 500 newspapers nationwide. In February 2000, they jointly published ''From This Day Forward''. They have two children, Lee and Rebecca, and six grandchildren.
 
==Books by Steve Roberts==
*''Our HaggadahCokie: UnitingA TraditionsLife forWell Interfaith FamiliesLived'' ({{ISBN |978-00620181060-06-285147-5}}) is hisSteve's 20112021 booktribute authoredabout withCokie hisand wife Cokieher Robertslegacy.
*''Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families'' ({{ISBN|978-0062018106}}) is his 2011 book co-authored with his wife, Cokie Roberts.
*''From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America'', 2009.
*''My Fathers' Houses'', 2005.
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==Sources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110726142006/http://smpa.gwu.edu/faculty/people/21 Steve Roberts bio from George Washington University]
 
==External links==
*{{C-SPAN|8343}}
*[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/27/rs.01.html Steve Roberts on Media Bias 28 March 2005 ]
*[http://www.americaabroadmedia.org America Abroad]
*obit of twin with biographical info on Steven V. Roberts httphttps://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/07/29/marc-roberts-chestnut-hill-harvard-school-public-health-professor-had-global-reach-economics-teacher-and-consultant/v41p3cyjbSEjNH2YONAE6J/story.html
 
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