What kind of accent is this?

Walkenese.

I wouldl say European native but picked up some New York along the way

Why does this seem like it’s a scene from a movie?

He went to Tulane, so perhaps he's from New Orleans. The New Orleans accent has hints of a Bronx accent.

He sounds East Coast. Boston? Jersey?

Sounds like one parent was from Brooklyn and one parent was from Wales.

When you hear him say "year" as "yur", some Welsh do that.

Sounds like a Boston accent to me.

It sounds like he had a bad speech impediment that he worked on - similar to how Elmer Fudd sounded.

Whatever that is, it sounds more like a speech impediment than an accent to me.

Good one, R9. I thought he had a cold, perhaps.

Hearing impairment? Otherwise, as R4 said, New Orleans, which can sound like New York until you get a little twang or two here and there.

Love his autumnal coloring and wardrobe.

I heard hearing impairment mixed with East coast accent around New York.

He went to Tulane, so the posters who said New Orleans were probably correct.

R1 thank you for making me laugh. As for the accent it’s multi faceted in its oddness. Could be partly a speech impediment and it’s difficult to tell if he is a foreign English who is trying to sound American or what. I can’t tell.

For the people saying New Orleans... are you joking? I have never ever heard someone from New Orleans sound like this.

Why yes I have R15. Think that R4 got it right. My ex was from NOLA and he and his friends spoke like this.

We're from France.

He's really handsome.

It's an East Coast accent, but he has a noticeable rhoticism (better known as the Elmer Fudd speech impediment).

He's kind of cute.

R11 I also love his sense of style, especially the prim, professional clothing juxtaposed with the earring.

It sounds nothing like a New Orleans accent.

He has an annoying vocal fry mixed in there.

Sounds like someone who grew up speaking two languages in the home. Maybe Danish & American English?

Sounds like a European guy who is trying hard to take on an American accent. If he's from Britain he's more likely to be either Scottish or Welsh or from some area of England that has a very strong accent.

He's kind of adorable. I hear Edith Ann.

Reminds me of that scene from 30 Rock where Jack was talking to someone with a strange, unidentifiable accent.

[quote]Jack: What insolvent country do you come from?

[quote]Receptionist: New Jersey. I'm just a weirdo.

Why don’t you ask him?

Christopher.Weaver@wsj.com

He's hot. I can overlook the speech impediment.

Eek. I knew the hair was heading in that direction. He looks like someone who'll murder their spouse.

He's right up there with Dr. Zeke Emmanuel.

I thought I heard bits of Irish in there combined with BAAHston. But overall it was bizarre and sounded fake and put on.

No way is he a Brit. Brits exaggerate Rs when they try to sound American. I heard one pronounce Philadelphia as Philadelphierr.

I think it's a speech impediment because it sounds like he doesn't have a natural cadence.

Unless he has a speech impediments, I find people annoying who mumble their way through a conversation like that. I had trouble even understanding what he was talking about.

He was very shifty. I expect it was his first time on camera.

[quote]He was very shifty. I expect it was his first time on camera.

Or, maybe he was just self-conscious, since he has a speech impediment that inspires internet debate 9 years later.

He didn't stumble over his words...

Sounds good to me!

Bet he's got a 16 oz beer can in his pantalones.

A beard in 2011. Rather fashionably prescient.

I want to fuck him.

He is cute, you have to give him that.

He is extremely faceable and very handsome.

*Fuckable! Stupid auto correct.

[quote]He is cute, you have to give him that.

I didn't know blindness was an after effect of the 'rona. He's average at best.

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Lol how the fuck did you find this, OP?

It sounds slightly Irish. He looks a bit Irish too.

It sounds slightly Irish. He looks a bit Irish too.

Irish accents are rhotic.

It's not "musical" enough to be Irish. The Scots and the Irish have very melodious accents. As Henry Higgins points out in My Fair Lady, "The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears."

I think he's got an adenoidal problem, blocked nostrils and a deviated septum.

'He’s from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and is a graduate of Tulane University. He worked briefly for nonprofit health care organizations in Louisiana before entering journalism.'

He was cute,

And family judging by that pose (and his natty dressing + earring combo in the OP).

Whatever accent it is, he keeps dropping the "g" off of words ending in "-ing".

r51, did you steal that photo from his AOL profile?

These kind of threads make me wonder if one day I'll wander onto the site and see a thread about myself. Would I dare click on it?

That's no accent, he's wearing rubber lips.

He has a nice sense of style. I never would have dreamed that an orange v-neck would work with a lavender shirt, but it clearly does (my dad was right--"all reds match," he used to tell me when i was growing up). They look particularly natty with that cool brown tweedy blazer and nice tie. And he's got great hair and great eyebrows.

On second listen, he absolutely does have a marked speech impediment.

He is simultaneously speaking and breathing through his mouth.

I'm surprised he doesn't have medication on his desk and a handkerchief at his painfully-blocked nose.

He's still cute (though I suppose he's lost more of his hair since then).

mumble, slur, mutter

Is this who we want to get pregnant by tonight?

We don't have uteruses.

R57 agreed

Someone has never seen a purple polo with an orange rider.

OP I love and am an interpreter of foreign accents, but this guy confounds me. He seems to be domestically bred; perhaps time in Maryland affected him.

Regardless, he's nothing to scoff at, being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His picture in this story about his Pulitzer may also indicate another facet of interest here.

Why can't we find a more up-to-date picture of this handsome man?