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'''Richard Benedetto''' is a retired USA Today political reporter and columnist who is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Communication at The [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He also teaches in The Fund For American Studies Program at [[George Mason University]]. He is founding member of the ''[[USA Today]]'' staff, wrote the first Page One cover story for that newspaper in 1982, and spent many years as its [[White House correspondent]].
==Early life and education==
Benedetto is a native of [[Utica, New York]] and a graduate of the [[Thomas R. Proctor High School]]. He holds a 1965 B.A. from [[Utica College]] of [[Syracuse University]] and an 1971 M.A. from Syracuse University's [[S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]] in newspaper journalism.<ref name="Jogging SU mag">{{cite
==Career==
He began his news reporting career in 1966 with The Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News. He also was a city government reporter and columnist with the Utica (N.Y.) Daily Press and the Utica (N.Y.) Observer Dispatch. He went on to become a state government reporter for the Gannett News Service in its State Capital Bureau, in Albany, New York.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
In 1982, he joined the start-up team of USA Today in Washington, D.C., covering the presidential administrations of Presidents [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H.W. Bush]], [[Bill Clinton]], and [[George W. Bush]].<ref name="Jogging SU mag"/> He retired from USA Today in 2006. Upon his retirement he began teaching at American University and in The Fund For American Studies program - first at [[Georgetown University]] and later at George Mason University.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
He is the author of two books, ''Politicians Are People, Too'' (2006) and ''Around And About'' (2019).{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
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