# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-reston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:37.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-reston"
name: "James Reston"
slug: "james-reston"
description: "James \"Scotty\" Barrett Reston was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times."
tagline: "American journalist and newspaper editor (1909–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Reston%2C_RIT_NandE_Vol4Num1_1972_Jan10_Complete.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1909-11-03"
deathDate: "1995-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.228476
  currentAttention:     26.36
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "چيمس ريستون"
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    title: "James Reston"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston"
    title: "James Reston"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston"
    title: "James Reston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Barrett Reston"
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    title: "Рестон, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Reston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump