{{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = David A. Vise | birth_name = David A. Vise | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|6|16}} | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | awards = Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting }}
'''David A. Vise''' (born June 16, 1960), is a journalist and author. He is a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, a New York–based investment firm, and Executive Director of Modern States “Freshman Year for Free,” a philanthropy whose goal is to make college more accessible and affordable.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Singletary|first=Michelle|title=Perspective {{!}} Making a dent in student debt with 'Freshman Year for Free'|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2017/08/24/making-a-dent-in-student-debt-with-freshman-year-for-free/|access-date=2020-09-14|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Vise – New Mountain Capital|url=http://www.newmountaincapital.com/team/david-vise/|access-date=2020-09-14|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Who We Are|url=https://modernstates.org/about-us/who-we-are/|access-date=2020-09-14|website=Modern States|language=en}}</ref>
He won a Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers in 1990 while working as a business reporter for ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="LOEB-Winners">{{cite web|title=Historical Winners List|url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/news-and-events/signature-events/gerald-loeb-awards/winners/historical-winners|access-date=January 31, 2019|website=UCLA Anderson School of Management}}</ref><ref name="LATimes-19900522">{{Cite news|date=May 22, 1990|title=Two Times business section reporters win Loeb Award|page=D2|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-22-fi-293-story.html|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=1990 Pulizer Prizes, Journalism|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1990}}</ref>
He has authored or co-authored four books, including ''The Bureau and the Mole'' (2002), about FBI agent and convicted spy Robert Hanssen, and ''The Google Story'' (2005), a national bestseller published in more than two dozen languages.<ref>{{Cite web|last=The Bureau and the Mole|title=Washingtonpost.com: Live Online|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/01/author_vise122001.htm|access-date=2020-09-14|website=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=shapiroconsult|title=The Google Story, THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER — in a Newly Updated Edition for Google's 20th Anniversary!|url=https://thegooglestory.com/|access-date=2020-09-14|website=The Google Story|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=OpenLibrary.org|title=David A. Vise|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL763801A/David_A._Vise|access-date=2020-09-14|website=Open Library|language=en}}</ref>
Vise received an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University and studied at the London School of Economics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=David A. Vise {{!}} Speakers Bureau and Booking Agent Info|url=https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/401783/David-A.-Vise|access-date=2020-09-14|website=www.allamericanspeakers.com}}</ref> Wharton named him to a list of 125 influential alumni on its 125th anniversary.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-02-05|title=Wharton Alumni Magazine: 125 Influential People and Ideas: David A. Vise|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/alum_mag/issues/125anniversaryissue/vise.html|access-date=2020-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205063534/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/alum_mag/issues/125anniversaryissue/vise.html|archive-date=2008-02-05}}</ref> In 2009, Vise received The Joseph Wharton Award for career achievement and community service.<ref>{{Cite web|title=40th Annual Wharton Award Dinner Honors Susan Small Savitsky, David Vise, Pradeep Wahi 10/29|url=https://www.whartondc.com/article.html?aid=1746|access-date=2020-09-14|website=www.whartondc.com}}</ref>
A past president of Washington Hebrew Congregation, Vise is a board member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, where he focuses on interfaith relations.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-12-29|title=David Vise|url=https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/david-vise|access-date=2020-09-14|website=The Montgomery Fellows|language=en}}</ref> Vise was a member of the first WUPJ delegation to meet with the Vatican.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
==Personal life== Vise, a first-generation American whose parents Harry and Doris Vise escaped Nazi Germany, is married to Lori Vise, a consultant with [http://www.collegeld.com The College Consulting Collaborative] who focuses on college planning for students with learning differences.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tamburin|first=Adam|title=Harry Vise, TN businessman and Holocaust survivor, dies at 94|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2015/08/26/harry-vise-tn-businessman-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-94/32326649/|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The Tennessean|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Alund|first=Natalie Neysa|title=Doris Vise, wife of local business leader the late Harry Vise, dies at 90|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/04/19/doris-vise-wife-tennessee-business-leader-harry-vise-dies-90/3519691002/|access-date=2022-01-22|website=The Tennessean|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Bibliography of publications==
* Vise, David A., and Mark Malseed. ''The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time''. Paperback ed. Dell Pub., 2005. {{ISBN|9780553804577}} * Vise, David A. ''The Bureau and the Mole: the Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History''. 1st ed. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2002. {{ISBN|9780871138347}} * Vise, David A., and Gary Williams. ''Sweet Redemption: How Gary Williams and Maryland Beat Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship''. Hardcover ed. Sports Pub., L.L.C., 2002. * Vise, David A., and Steve Coll. ''Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Account of the SEC's battle with Wall Street''. Paperback ed. Scribner, 1998.
==References== {{Reflist}} * * *
==External links== *{{C-SPAN|1096}} *{{cite web|title=David Vise on ''Charlie Rose''|url=https://charlierose.com/guests/2304}} *{{cite web|title=Reporter David Vise: 'The Google Story' (motley fool profiles)|date=18 November 2005|website=National Public Radio|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5019008}} *{{IMDb name|1382711}}
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