Gil Klein

Gil Klein is a journalist and journalism educator in Washington DC. Beginning his career at the Tampa Tribune, he arrived in Washington in 1985 to start 22 years as a national correspondent for the Media General News Service. He was the 1994 president of the National Press Club and now is its historian, producing its most recent history, "Tales from the National Press Club." (2020) He is director of the University of Oklahoma's Washington Journalism Program and chief of its Gaylord News Washington Bureau. His avocation is American history, and he wrote his first book, "Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest and Murder at the White House" (2018) after spending years walking to work through the Square, collecting stories about its past. He is a graduate of Rollins College and earned a master's degree in communication at American University, where he taught journalism for eight years beginning in 2010 in its Washington Semester Program. He and his wife, Gail, live in Arlington, Va. and have two grown children.