Biography
A native of Washington, D.C., Dickerson is a son of C. Wyatt Dickerson and Nancy Dickerson Whitehead. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1987 and holds a degree in English with distinction from the University of Virginia. On Her Trail, Dickerson's book about his relationship with his late mother Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, a pioneering television newswoman, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006.
Dickerson hosted Face the Nation three times in 2009 and was appointed political director of CBS News in November 2011. He appeared each Wednesday on The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio until the show ended in 2007, and was also a frequent guest on NPR's Day to Day. He appears on PBS'a Washington Week and Slate's Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon.
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