Frank Mankiewicz ’47

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Frank Mankiewicz, president of National Public Radio since 1977, is an internationally renowned broadcast journalist and political author. He served as press secretary to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and political director for the presidential campaign of George McGovern. Earlier, he was regional director for the Latin American Peace Corps and its country director in Peru.

A former Daily Bruin editor, Mankiewicz was a Washington, D.C.-based syndicated columnist and CBS News correspondent and anchor. He has devoted much of his time contributing to progessional journals and writing books on political and media subjects, including Perfectly Clear – Nixon from Whittier to Watergate, U.S. v. Richard Nixon – The Final Crisis, Remote Control – 25 years of Television in America and With Fidel – A Portrait of Castro and Cuba.

Mankiewicz graduated from UCLA with a degree in political science and serves as a trustee of the UCLA Foundation. He received his M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and his L.L.B. from Boalt Law School.