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External videos
External videos
	Booknotes interview with Collins on America's Women, December 14, 2003, C-SPAN
	Washington Journal interview with Collins on When Everything Changed, October 20, 2009, C-SPAN
	After Words interview with Collins on When Everything Changed, January 2, 2010, C-SPAN
	Discussion with Collins on As Texas Goes...', June 10, 2012, C-SPAN
	Interview with Collins on When Everything Changed, January 15, 2017, C-SPAN
	Interview with Collins on Now Stopping Us Now, September 26, 2020, C-SPAN

Gail Collins
Gail Collins
	Gail Collins at Rutgers University in 2019
Born	Gail Gleason; November 25, 1945 (age 79); Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist, op-ed columnist
Alma mater	Marquette University (B.A.); University of Massachusetts Amherst (M.A.)
Notable works	As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda; When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Spouse	Dan Collins (m. 1970; died 2024)
Website
	about.me/gailcollins

Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945)^[1] is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with The New York Times.^[2]^[3] Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position.^[2]

Collins writes a weekly op-ed column for the Times from her liberal^[4] perspective, published Thursdays .^[2] Since 2014 she has co-authored a blog with conservative journalist Bret Stephens entitled "The Conversation", at NYTimes.com, featuring bi-partisan political commentary.^[5]

Biography

Born in Cincinnati in 1945 as Gail Gleason,^[1] Collins attended Seton High School before earning a B.A. in journalism at Marquette University in 1967 and an M.A. in government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971.^[6]^[7]

Following graduation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she wrote for Connecticut publications, including the Hartford Advocate,^[8] and, in 1972, founded the Connecticut State News Bureau, a news service providing coverage of the state capital and Connecticut politics.^[9] When she sold the bureau in 1977, it had grown into the largest service of its kind in the United States.^[9] As a freelance writer in the late 1970s, she wrote weekly columns for the Connecticut Business Journal and was a public affairs host for Connecticut Public Television.^[9]^[10]

From 1982 to 1985 Collins covered finance as a reporter for United Press International.^[6]^[9] She wrote as a columnist for the New York Daily News from 1985 to 1991.^[6]^[9]

From 1991 to 1995, Collins worked for Newsday.^[6]^[9] She then joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board,^[7] and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001, she was named the paper's first female Editorial Page Editor, a position she held for six years. She resigned from this post at the beginning of 2007 to take a six-month leave to focus on writing her book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, returning to the Times as a regular columnist in July 2007.^[2]

Beyond her work as a journalist, Collins has published several books: The Millennium Book, which she co-authored with her husband, CBS News producer Dan Collins; Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics; America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines; the aforementioned When Everything Changed; and As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda.^[2]^[11]^[12] She also wrote the introduction for the 2013 50th-anniversary edition of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.^[13] In 2019, her book No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History was published.^[14]