Doyle Daniel McManus is the first-born son of Lois Doyle and James R. McManus, who was a San Franciscoadvertisingexecutive.[6][7] His younger brothers include Chris (born 1955)[8] and Reed (born 1956).[9]
He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978, reporting from Los Angeles, the Middle East, Central America, New York. He transferred to the Times's Washington, D.C., bureau in 1983, where he covered the U.S. State Department, and White House. He succeeded Jack Nelson as bureau chief in 1996.[4][5] After thirteen years as bureau chief, he reportedly told colleagues that he had "long ago asked for a new assignment."[12] In November 2008, the financially troubled Tribune Company made him a columnist when it closed the Los Angeles Times' bureau in favor of a single Washington bureau for all its newspapers.[3]
McManus, Doyle (1981). Free at Last, the Complete Story of the Hostages' 444-Day Ordeal and the Secret Negotiations to Set Them Free (1st ed.). New York: Signet Books. ISBN978-0-451-11054-1.
^Kurtz, Howard (2009-04-28). "For the Media, 100-Days Story Represents the Perfect Swarm". The Washington Post. pp. C1, C6. Retrieved 2009-04-28. We are slaves to news pegs," says Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, which scooped the world by starting its pieces 10 days early. "Since it's an arbitrary number," he says, "who's to say Day 90 isn't just as important?" McManus looked up the story he published on George W. Bush's 100th day in office, when he credited the new president with "preaching a conciliatory message" and quoted a scholar as praising the administration's "astonishing professionalism." That experience, says McManus, was "sobering.
^ abcRatnesar, Romesh (July–August 1998). "On the Job with Doyle McManus". Stanford Magazine. Stanford Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2008-09-10.