Early Life
Walter David Jacobson was born at Michael Reese Hospital on Chicago's South Side, the son of insurance agent Sam Jacobson and his mother, Anne Jacobson. His family lived on Kenmore Avenue in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. A Chicagoan during his youth, Jacobson's love for the Chicago Cubs led him to become a batboy for the team in 1952 and 1953, and motivated him to his first journalism job as the sports editor for his grammar school newspaper.
In sixth grade, Jacobson's family moved to Glencoe, Illinois. Jacobson attended New Trier High School, received his bachelor's degree in political science from Grinnell College in 1959 and his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York.
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