Deroy Murdock Biography
Deroy Murdock is an American political commentator working for Fox News as a contributor. He joined the Fox News team in June 2000.
Deroy Murdock Career
Murdock graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in government in 1986 and New York University with an MBA in marketing and international business in 1989. He spent a semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an exchange student as part of his MBA degree. Murdock’s writings can be found in numerous American and international newspapers and periodicals, including The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, National Review, and The Orange County Register. In addition to Fox News, he has contributed to ABC’s Nightline, NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and other television news channels. His political commentary has also been heard on many radio stations. Murdock also holds the positions of emeritus Media Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Atlas Network in Washington, D.C. He is a part of the Foreign Relations Council.
Deroy Murdock is a well-known speaker in public. He has given talks and debates at numerous places, including Boston College, the National Academy of Sciences, the Cato Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard Medical School, the Heritage Foundation, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Tulane universities, as well as numerous fora from Bogota to Buenos Aires to Budapest. Mudock has appeared before the US Senate Committee on Finance twice as a witness. Under the sponsorship of the Federalist Society and Young America’s Foundation, he frequently gives speeches on college campuses. He was a professor at the Institute for Humane Studies and frequently spoke to the school’s student body.
Since winning a citywide editorial writing competition in 1979 while still a student journalist in his hometown Los Angeles, Murdock has expressed his opinions to the general public. He participated in the Reagan for President campaigns in 1980 and 1984 as a volunteer and young organizer. In 1984, he served as an assistant chief page at the Republican National Convention. From 1982 to 1985, Murdock worked as an intern for Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He served on the National Advisory Board on International Educational Programs from 1987 to 1989 after being appointed by President Reagan. In 2000, he served as a communications consultant for the presidential campaign of Steve Forbes.
Murdock is on the advisory boards of several organizations, including American Transparency/OpenTheBooks.com in Chicago, Illinois; the Cato Institute Project on Social Security Choice in Washington, D.C.; the Grassroot Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii; Making Our Economy Right in Dakka, Bangladesh; and Project 21, a Washington-based organization dedicated to promoting free-market solutions within America’s black communities. Murdock is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Network, which supports and connects about 462 free-market think tanks in the United States and 94 other countries abroad. He is one of the co-founders of the Benjamin Rush Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting patient choice, limited government, and freedom in American medical education and healthcare.
Murdock holds memberships in the American Council on Germany, the American-Swiss Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Mont Pelerin Society. In addition, Murdock serves as Editor-in-Chief of Meat the Press, an informal get-together of newsmakers, opinion leaders, and journalists who like a good steak, a good wine, and lively conversation. Murdock also serves as the host of the Gotham Think Tank Roundtable. In addition to his work in journalism and public policy, Deroy Murdock is the president of the media and marketing consulting firm Loud & Clear Communications, situated in Manhattan. It offers for-profit businesses as well as non-profit organizations advertising, promotion, and business development services.
Murdock supports artistic endeavors. He supports and is a member of the jazz station WBGO Radio (88.3 FM) in Newark, New Jersey. He is also a member of the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center Theater, New York’s Theater Development Fund, and the New York Philharmonic. For the unofficial, bicoastal Krewe of Festivus, a collection of music enthusiasts who have been going to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival every year since the mid-1990s, Murdock also acts as Minister of Misinformation.
Moreover, Murdock is a producer of I’ll Say She Is – the Lost Marx Brothers Musical, which opened on June 2, 2016, at the Connelly Theater in Manhattan’s East Village. This 1924 musical comedy’s script went missing but a rehearsal outline that had been found was repaired and modified by Noah Diamond, a fan of the Marx Brothers, and Murdock teamed up with him to help fund and publicize the farce’s return to the New York stage.
Deroy Murdock Salary
Murdock earns an annual salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Deroy Murdock Net Worth
Murdock has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a political commentator.
Deroy Murdock Age
Murdock was born on December 10, 1963, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is 60 years old as of 2023 and he celebrates his birthday on the 10th of December every year.
Deroy Murdock Height and Weight
Murdock stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches. He has not disclosed his weight. However, this information will be updated when available.
Deroy Murdock Family
Murdock likes to keep his personal life private hence he has neither disclosed the names of his parent nor those of his siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Deroy Murdock Husband and Children
Murdock is openly gay but has not disclosed any information about his partner or his past relationships as he is very private with his personal life. However, this information will be updated when available.
Deroy Murdock Books
Murdock coauthored One Nation: One Standard (Sentinel, 2006) with the late New York congressman Herman Badillo in association with the Manhattan Institute. He has written for several publications, including The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice (Forum, 1997), Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America (Praeger, 1997), Economic Strategy and National Security (Westview Press/Council on Foreign Relations, 2000), and Standing Athwart History 24/7: One Year in the Life of National Review Online, 2007 Edition (National Review Books, 2008).