David Talbot

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This article is about the journalist. For the politician, see David Talbot (Canadian politician).

For the fictional character, see David Talbot (The Vampire Chronicles).

David Talbot is a liberal American online journalist and graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He founded Salon.com, a pioneering online magazine, in 1995 and remained its Editor in Chief and Chief Executive Officer until February 2005. Although he no longer edits Salon, he continues to serve on the publication's board.

Talbot's book, The New York Times best seller, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, offers a revisionist view of the Kennedy presidency and assassination, and explores Bobby Kennedy's search for the truth about his brother's murder. The book was optioned by Lionsgate for a TV mini-series.

Talbot is the son of longtime character actor Lyle Talbot, and the brother of documentary producer and former child actor Stephen Talbot and of journalist Margaret Talbot, a staff writer at the The New Yorker.

In 2008, Talbot launched a media production company with his siblings called The Talbot Players, named after their late father's theater troupe. The company is producing books, films and documentaries. Among the company's first projects is a series of illustrated history books for Simon & Schuster called "Pulp History." The company is also developing a documentary TV series about global music called "Sound Tracks."

Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner, and has written for Time magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and other publications. He lives with his family in San Francisco.