Dale McFeatters
Dale McFeatters is chief editorial writer and a columnist for Scripps Howard News Service.
He has been with Scripps Howard in Washington. D.C., since 1969, first as a regional reporter and later as a member of the national reporting staff, assistant managing editor/news and managing editor of the bureau. He came to Washington from his hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Press, where he wa a general assignment reporter.
He has reported nationally and internationally for SHNS and now specializes in economic, national security and foreign policy issues and writes a regular column. He has won awards for reporting on deadline, national affairs and the coal industry and for his commentary and humor writing. The American Journalist Review named him one of Washington's unsung journalistic heroes and his work has appeared in the Poynter Institute's anthology, "The Best Newspaper Writing."
McFeatters was born Sept. 3, 1941, in Pittsburgh. He decided at the age of 5 to go into the newspaper business after accompanying his reporter father to a fire that destroyed the city's largest railroad station.
McFeatters graduated from Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School and Colgate University, spent a year attending schools in France and Germany and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi from 1965-1967.
He and his wife Ann, writer of SHNS' popular column White House Watch, have two sons, Dale and Matthew, both in the U.S. Army, and a daughter, Kirsten, a boutique manager in San Diego. They live in Bethesda, Md.
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