Dan Walters Biography

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 57 years spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers.
He began his professional career in 1960 at age 16 at the Humboldt Times in Eureka while still attending high school and turned down a National Merit scholarship to continue working as a journalist. At one point in his career at age 22 he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor.
The Hanford Sentinel was the first of three newspaper editor positions before joining the Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975 just as Jerry Brown began his governorship. Walters later became the Union’s Capitol bureau chief and in 1981 began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political economic and social events. In 1984 he and the column moved to The Sacramento Bee.
He has written more than 9000 columns about California and its politics and his column has appeared in many other California newspapers. Walters has written about California and its politics for a number of other publications including The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.

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