Jonathan Karl

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Jonathan Karl
94th President of the White House Correspondents' Association
Assumed office
2019
Preceded byOliver Knox
ABC News Chief White House Correspondent
In office
December 2012 – January 2021
Preceded byJake Tapper
Succeeded byCecilia Vega
Personal details
Born (1968-01-19) January 19, 1968 (age 53)
RelationsAllan Karl (brother)
ResidenceMcLean, Virginia, U.S.
Alma materVassar College
AwardsEmmy Award, Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, Joan Shorenstein Barone Award

Jonathan D. Karl (born January 19, 1968) is an American political journalist.[1] Karl has covered every major assignment in Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the State Department, and has reported from more than 30 countries, covering U.S. politics, foreign policy, and the military. He has contributed to various ABC News programs, including Good Morning America and Nightline, and has interviewed many public figures, including Donald Trump, the 14th Dalai Lama[2] and Republican Senator Ted Cruz.[3]

Karl was the Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News in Washington, D.C., from December 2012 through the end of the Trump administration in January 2021. He continues as ABC News' Chief Washington correspondent and plans were announced that he will host an interview show for ABC News Live, the network's streaming service.[4]

He is the author of the 2020 book Front Row at the Trump Show (ISBN 978-1524745622).[5][6] Karl is writing a sequel The Aftermath to be published in Fall 2022 by Dutton Penguin.[7]

Early life[]

Karl credits his passion for history and journalism to a time in his adolescent years when his family moved to South Dakota. Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1990, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Vassar Spectator.[1]

Career[]

Karl began his career as a researcher and reporter for The New Republic, continued as an investigative reporter for the New York Post, and became a Congressional Correspondent for CNN before joining ABC News in January 2003 as the Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the State Department.[8] He worked for ABC covering national political news, becoming the Senior National Security Correspondent in December 2005. Karl was the Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News from December 2012[1] through the end of the Trump administration in January 2021. He continues as ABC News' Chief Washington correspondent and plans were announced that he will host an interview show for ABC News Live, the network’s streaming service.[4]

Karl's writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, The Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he has written for "The Note", a political blog run by ABC News.[9]

Karl is the author of The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias.[10]

Karl has appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (for which he has also been a guest anchor[1]), Nightline, Good Morning America, World News with Diane Sawyer, and Special Report with Bret Baier.

Controversies[]

Karl became a controversial figure in May 2013, when he wrote an article that claimed to quote directly from an e-mail sent by a White House advisor.[11] It was later revealed that the quote was inaccurately given to Karl by an unnamed source, and that he himself had never seen the e-mail. Karl apologized for the error, and also for not having stated that the quote was from a detailed summary his source provided, rather than a direct quote from the e-mail.[12]

Awards[]

Karl received the 2011 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington, D.C.-based reporting,[8] the 2013 Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement, an Emmy Award in 2009 for his coverage of the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama, and the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award in 2001.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "ABC Biography for Jonathan Karl". ABC News. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
  2. ^ "The Dalai Lama's Secret to Happiness in 140 Characters Video". ABC News. February 21, 2014.
  3. ^ "'This Week': Sen. Ted Cruz Video". ABC News. March 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "ABC News, Washington Post Announce Incoming White House Teams". Mediaite. January 19, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
  5. ^ Karl, Jonathan (2020). Front Row at the Trump Show. Penguin. ISBN 978-1524745622.
  6. ^ Johnson, Ted (March 30, 2020). "ABC News' Jonathan Karl On The "Troubling" Aspects Of 'The Trump Show' During Coronavirus Crisis – Q&A". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  7. ^ Allen, Mike. "ABC's Jonathan Karl to publish sequel to "Front Row at the Trump Show"". Axios. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Jonathan Karl". National Association of Broadcasters: State Leadership Conference 2013. National Association of Broadcasters. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  9. ^ "2016 Presidential Candidates & Election News". ABC News. Archived from the original on September 1, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  10. ^ "Jonathan Karl". National Press Foundation. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  11. ^ Karl, Jonathan (May 10, 2013). "Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference".
  12. ^ "Jonathan Karl: I 'Regret' Inaccuracies In Benghazi Reporting". The Huffington Post. May 19, 2013.
  13. ^ "Conference Speakers". The Washington Journalism and Media Conference. George Mason University. Archived from the original on June 26, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

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