New York Times editor to discuss elections Tuesday at Pomona College

The talk will take place at 4:15 p.m. inside the Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St. at Rose Hills Theatre. 

Since March 2010, Berke has been the national editor and he joined the newspaper in 1986 and for more than a decade in the Washington Bureau was a national political correspondent, according to a Pomona College news release. 

Berke's coverage areas included the White House, politics and money and Congress and he covered the 2000, 1996, 1992 and 1988 presidential campaigns.

He served as the Washington editor from 2002 to 2004 and coordinated political coverage and oversaw 40 reporters. He was named associate managing editor for news in 2005 and was named assistant managing editor in January 2006. 

Before he joined the Times, Berke became chief Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Evening Sun after he covered government agencies, Congress, the White House and Baltimore City Hall from 1981 until 1986. 

Berke is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has served on the senior advisory board of the Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, according to the news release. 

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