# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-reston-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:45.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-reston-jr"
name: "James Reston, Jr."
slug: "james-reston-jr"
description: "James Barrett Reston Jr. was an American journalist, documentarian and author of political and historical fiction and non-fiction. He wrote about the Vietnam War, the Jonestown Massacre, civil rights, the impeachment of Richard Nixon, and the September 11 attacks."
tagline: "American author and journalist (1943-2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943-09-01"
deathDate: "2023-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.06
  momentum:             0.09063444108761332
  historical:           6.824048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2090058/"
    handle:    "nm2090058"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Reston_junior"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "چيمس ريستون (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_Jr."
    title: "James Reston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_Jr."
    title: "James Reston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_Jr."
    title: "James Reston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_Jr."
    title: "James Reston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_jr."
    title: "James Reston jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4881160"
    title: "James Reston Jr."
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump