Tony Snow wass a Detroit News columnist before joining Foxnews, and was a speechwriter in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Since the late 1970s, Snow has either been editing editorial pieces or writing them himself, often serving as a ghostwriter for President Ronald Reagan, President George Bush, John Sununu and Jack Kemp.
Snow landed his first newspaper job as an editorial writer for the Greensboro (N.C.) Record in 1979. He later served in the editorial departments of the Norfolk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot, the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, the Detroit News and the Washington Times.
In 1991, Snow was recruited by Bush's chief of staff, Sununu, to serve as deputy assistant to the president for communications and as director of speech writing. A year later, at the president's request, Snow created a new position of deputy assistant to the president for media affairs, where he penned op-ed pieces for many high-ranking government officials.
Since early 1973, Snow has written a column for the Detroit News, which is distributed nationally twice a week by Creators Syndicate. His work as both a writer and an editor has received recognition from major press organizations.
Snow earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Davidson College in 1977 and performed graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago in 1978-79. He and his wife Jill live with their daughter Kendall in Fairfax County, Virginia.