WASHINGTON WEEK: REPORTERS
Dan Balz: National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post
Dan Balz is national political correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined
the paper in 1978 and has been involved in the paper’s political coverage as a
reporter or editor for the past 20 years. Balz has served as national editor,
political editor, White House correspondent and as the paper’s Texas-based
southwest correspondent. He is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los
Angeles Times, of the 1996 book Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the
Republican Revival.
In 1999, he received the American Political Science Association award for his
coverage of politics. Before working for the Post, he worked as a reporter and
deputy editor for National Journal and as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
He was born in Freeport, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Illinois. He
is married to Nancy Johnson Balz, and they have one son.
Richard L. Berke: The New York Times
Richard L. Berke is the national political correspondent for The New York Times,
responsible for guiding coverage of the 2000 presidential election as well as the
paper’s overall political coverage. He joined the Washington bureau of the Times
in 1986 and has covered Congress, the White House, domestic policy and
politics, and finance. Berke was also an editor in the bureau. He has covered
every presidential campaign for the Times since 1988.
Berke also is a senior writer for the Times and has been its chief political reporter
since 1993. Before working for the Times, Berke was a reporter for five years for
the Baltimore Evening Sun, where his beats included Washington, D.C., as well
as City Hall. He has also worked for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner.
Berke graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor of arts degree in
political science in 1980 and received a master’s degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism in 1981. In November 1999, Brill’s
Content magazine named him one of the most influential figures in American
media. Berke is a member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Institute of
Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was a
fellow at the institute in 1997, where he taught a weekly seminar on the press
and American politics.
Berke is a native of, and currently lives in, Washington, D.C.
JEFFREY BIRNBAUM: Washington Bureau Chief, Fortune Magazine
Jeffrey Birnbaum is a four-time author and chief of the Washington, D.C. bureau
of Fortune Magazine. He specializes in covering the intersection of government
and business, with an emphasis on the White House, lobbying and national
politics. As Fortune’s senior writer in D.C., he organizes and authors the
magazine’s well-regarded Power 25 survey that assesses which interest groups
have the most clout in the nation’s capital. Birnbaum joined Fortune in January
1997 after two years as a senior political correspondent for Fortune’s sister
publication Time magazine and, before that, 16 years with The Wall Street
Journal.
He published an important book about campaign fundraising called The Money
Men in June 2000. Birnbaum’s other books include Showdown at Gucci Gulch,
with Alan S. Murray, as well as The Lobbyists and Madhouse, for which he was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Birnbaum graduated magna cum laude with
a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives
outside Washington with his wife and three children.
JOAN BISKUPIC: Legal Affairs Correspondent, USA TODAY
Joan Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. Before joining USA
TODAY in June 2000, she was the Supreme Court reporter for The Washington
Post (1992-2000) and legal affairs writer for Congressional Quarterly (19891992). Prior to that, she covered government and politics for newspapers in
Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
Biskupic holds a law degree from Georgetown University, a master’s in English
from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor’s in journalism from Marquette
University. She is the author of several reference books, including
Congressional Quarterly’s two-volume encyclopedia on the Supreme Court (3rd
Ed., 1997, with co-author Elder Witt).
Biskupic is married and has a young daughter.
GLORIA BORGER: Contributing Editor, U.S. News & World Report and CBS
News
Gloria Borger joined U.S. News & World Report in 1986 as a political reporter
and now as contributing editor writes the magazine’s “On Politics” column. She
is also a special correspondent for CBS News, contributing regularly to “CBS
Evening News with Dan Rather,” “60 Minutes II” and to CBS News special events
coverage. She appears weekly as a panelist on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Borger began her career at the Washington bureau of Newsweek magazine
where she worked as a general assignment reporter covering a variety of stories
ranging from the Three-Mile Island nuclear accident to presidential campaigns.
Politics soon became her permanent beat, and she was named Newsweek’s
chief congressional correspondent.
Borger first entered journalism as a reporter at the now defunct Washington Star,
where she won a series of Front Page awards. While there, she co-authored
Federal Triangle, a spoof about political life in Washington.
Borger is a graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and is now a
member of the board of trustees. She was the recipient of an IBM-sponsored
Watson Traveling Fellowship to study the British press. Borger lives in
Washington, D.C. with her husband, Lance Morgan, and their two sons.
DAVID S. BRODER: National Political Correspondent, The Washington Post
David S. Broder, a national political correspondent reporting on the political
scene for The Washington Post, writes a twice-weekly column that covers an
even broader aspect of American political life. The column, syndicated by The
Washington Post Writers Group, is carried by more than 300 newspapers around
the globe. Broder is also a commentator on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” and makes
regular appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Before joining the Post in 1966, Broder covered national politics for The New
York Times (1965-66), The Washington Star (1960-65) and Congressional
Quarterly (1955-60). He began his newspaper career at the Bloomington
(Illinois) Pantagraph after serving two years in the U.S. Army. Broder has
covered every national campaign and convention since 1960, traveling up to
100,000 miles a year to interview voters and report on the candidates.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for distinguished commentary and
has been named “Best Newspaper Political Reporter” by Washington Journalism
Review, among many other industry accolades.
Broder received a bachelor’s degree and a master of arts in political science from
the University of Chicago. Broder and his wife, the former Ann Creighton Collar,
have four grown sons and make their home in Arlington, Virginia.
CECI CONNOLLY: National Staff Writer, The Washington Post
Ceci Connolly has been a national staff writer at The Washington Post since
1997. She is currently writing about health care in America. Her articles cover a
wide range of subjects, including Medicare and Medicaid reform, bioterrorism,
the uninsured, the pharmaceutical industry and the debate over embryonic stem
cell research.
In 1997, she produced a three-part, behind-the-scenes look at the tobacco wars
and, in 1998, she was the lead House reporter on the midterm congressional
elections. She has written extensively about two House speakers - Newt
Gingrich and Dennis Hastert - and Vice President Gore.
Prior to joining the Post, Connolly was a Washington correspondent for the St.
Petersburg Times, where she covered Congress from the early days of the
Republican revolution in 1994 through the 1995 budget debate. Aside from
politics, she focused much of her coverage on issues of importance to Florida
such as the environment, Medicare and Social Security.
In 1996, Connolly was assigned to the Bob Dole presidential campaign,
chronicling his legislative career, his near-fatal war wounds and his style on the
campaign trail. She traveled to more than 30 states with the campaign. Prior to
the St. Petersburg Times, Connolly worked for Congressional Quarterly. At the
weekly magazine, she wrote about politics and health care. She also worked for
the Associated Press and two New England dailies.
A native of Pennsylvania, Connolly is a graduate of Boston College and the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She and her husband live in Washington,
D.C.
JEANNE CUMMINGS: White House Correspondent, Wall Street Journal
Jeanne Cummings joined the Wall Street Journal Washington bureau in 1997 as
a political reporter and moved to the White House beat a year later. In 2000, she
won the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, the highest honor for daily White House
correspondents, for her coverage of the Clinton Administration.
Prior to working for the Wall Street Journal, Cummings worked for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, first in Atlanta covering politics and the governor’s office
and then in its Washington bureau, where she tracked the career of former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 1997, she won a National Press Club award
for groundbreaking coverage of Gingrich’s complex financial and political support
network and the House ethics investigation of it.
During her career, Cummings has covered every level of government, from city
councils to the White House. She has reported on numerous statewide races,
congressional contests and three presidential campaigns.
Cummings is a native of Maryland. She graduated cum laude from the University
of Maryland in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in
political science.
MICHAEL DUFFY: Washington Bureau Chief, Time
Michael Duffy is Time magazine’s Washington bureau chief and has been at the
center of the magazine’s coverage of politics and presidents for 10 years. Duffy
joined Time in 1985 as a Pentagon correspondent and was assigned to cover
Congress a year later. He spent six years covering both the George H.W. Bush
and Clinton White House for Time and has won numerous awards for his
reporting.
Since 1997, Duffy has overseen 20 correspondents at the newsmagazine’s
largest news bureau. He is the co-author, with Time’s Dan Goodgame, of
Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Duffy graduated from Oberlin College in 1980 and
lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife and three sons.
JULIET EILPERIN: Reporter, Capitol Hill, Washington Post
Juliet Eilperin graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1992,
where she received a bachelor’s degree in Politics with a certificate in Latin
American Studies.
In the fall of 1992, she went to Seoul, South Korea on a Luce Scholarship, which
allowed her to cover politics and economics for an English-language magazine.
Returning to Washington, Eilperin wrote for Louisiana and Florida papers at
States News Service and then joined Roll Call newspaper after the Republicans
seized Congress in 1994.
In March 1998, she joined The Washington Post as its House reporter, where
she has covered impeachment, lobbying, legislation, and two national
congressional campaigns. During her first year at the Post, Eilperin was the
most prolific writer on the news staff, writing more than 200 stories.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Thomas Friedman is a foreign affairs columnist at The New York Times, a post
he has held since 1995. He first joined the Times in 1981 as a general
assignment financial reporter, where he specialized in OPEC and oil-related
news, and has since traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the world
acting as a bureau chief for the Times in several middle-eastern countries.
Friedman has published several books, including From Beirut to Jerusalem,
which has been published in 10 different languages; The Lexus and the Olive
Tree: Understanding Globalization; as well as text to accompany Micha Bar-Am’s
photographs for the book Israel: A Photobiography.
For his coverage of the Middle East, Friedman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
international reporting in 1983 and 1988.
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in
Mediterranean studies. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and
his daughters, Orly and Natalie.
TOM GJELTEN: National Security Correspondent, National Public Radio
Tom Gjelten reports on national security issues from Washington, D.C., for
National Public Radio’s (NPR) award-winning newsmagazines, “All Things
Considered,” “Morning Edition,” and “Weekend Edition.”
Gjelten returned to Washington in 1994 after eight years of overseas
assignments. From September 1990 to December 1993, Gjelten was based in
Berlin as NPR’s correspondent for Eastern and Central Europe. He reported
such major stories as the reunification of Germany and the transition from
communism to democracy and market economics. With other NPR
correspondents, Gjelten also covered the war in the Persian Gulf and the
breakup of the Soviet Union.
From 1991 to 1994, Gjelten’s major assignment was in the former Yugoslavia,
where he covered the Serb-Croat conflict in Croatia and the war in Bosnia. His
book Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege (Harper-Collins), is
based on his reporting from Sarajevo.
From 1986 to 1989, Gjelten was NPR’s Latin American correspondent, based in
Mexico City. During that period he covered the Central American conflicts, the
crisis in Panama, the drug wars in Columbia, and politics and social issues in
Mexico, Argentina, and other Latin American countries.
Since joining NPR in 1983 as labor and education reporter, Gjelten has won
numerous awards for his work. Most recently, his coverage of the Yugoslav
conflict earned Gjelten a Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club, a
George Polk Award for Radio Reporting and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award.
Gjelten is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Antioch Graduate
School in Keene, New Hampshire. In 1989-90, he was a William Benton Fellow
at the University of Chicago.
LINDA GREENHOUSE: Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse began covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times
in 1978. With the exception of two years during the mid-1980s, during which she
covered Congress, she has been the paper’s Supreme Court correspondent.
Previously, she covered local and state government and politics for the Times in
New York and was chief of the newspaper’s legislative bureau in Albany. She
has appeared as a “Washington Week” panelist since 1980.
She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she currently serves on the
advisory committee to the Schlesinger Library on the History of American
Women. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School
and has several honorary degrees. For her coverage of the Court, she was
awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (beat reporting) in 1998.
She lives in Bethesda, MD, with her husband, Eugene Fidell, and daughter,
Hannah.
JOHN HARRIS: Guest Scholar, Governmental Studies, The Brookings
Institution
John Harris is currently on leave from The Washington Post to write a history of
the Clinton, administration. He is serving as a guest scholar at the Brookings
Insitution - focusing on the presidency and national politics - while completing his
book.
Harris joined the Post in 1985 as a summer intern and worked his way up
through a succession of local and national beats, including the emerging outer
suburbs of Northern Virginia, Virginia state government and politics, the
Pentagon - including the U.S. military intervention in Haiti - and the White House.
A native of Rochester, New York, Harris graduated from Carleton College in
Northfield, Minnesota, where he studied American history. He lives with his wife,
Ann O’Hanlon, in Alexandria, Virginia.
JOHN HARWOOD: National Political Editor, The Wall Street Journal
John Harwood was born in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up in the Maryland
suburbs outside of the nation’s capital. While still in high school, he began his
journalism career as a copy boy at the now-defunct Washington Star. He studied
history and economics at Duke University and graduated magna cum laude in
1978.
Following graduation, Harwood joined the St. Petersburg Times, reporting on
police, investigative projects, local government and politics. Later he became
state capital correspondent, Washington correspondent and political editor. His
assignments ranged from presidential campaigns to unrest against the apartheid
regime in South Africa, which he visited three times during the 1980s.
In 1989, Harwood was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he
spent the 1989-90 academic year. He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1991 as
White House correspondent. He subsequently covered Congress and national
politics, and became National Political Editor in 1997. He has reported on each
of the last five American presidential elections.
Harwood lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, Frankie Blackburn, and
their three daughters.
JANET HOOK: Congressional Correspondent, Los Angeles Times
Janet Hook is the congressional correspondent for the Los Angeles Times’
Washington D.C. bureau.
Hook began her journalism career in 1978 as the assistant editor for The Public
Interest. A year later she left to become an assistant editor for The Chronicle of
Higher Education. In 1983, she began work for the Congressional Quarterly as
senior writer. In 1993, Hook was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship for
Professional Journalists award, as well as the Everett Dirksen Award for her
distinguished reporting on Congress.
Hook earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. She and her
husband, William Patterson, have two sons and currently reside in the
Washington D.C. area.
MARA LIASSON: National Political Correspondent, National Public Radio
Mara Liasson’s reports can be heard regularly on National Public Radio’s (NPR)
award-winning news(magazines, “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.”
Previously, Liasson was NPR’s White House correspondent, for which she won
the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for daily
news three times( in 1994, 1995 and 1997).
During her tenure at NPR, she has covered the 1992 and 1996 presidential
elections and served as congressional correspondent. In 1991, Liasson spent
three weeks in Amman, Jordan, where she reported on the aftermath of the Gulf
War. Prior to NPR, Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San
Francisco.
In 1977, Liasson earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from Brown
University.
MICHEL MARTIN: Correspondent, ABC News
Michel Martin spent more than a decade covering politics and policy for the Wall
Street Journal and the Washington Post before she joined ABC News in
September 1992. She has received one Emmy Award for her ABC News
reporting and has been nominated for two others.
Her primary assignment is ABC News “Nightline,” where she has contributed a
number of reports for the ongoing “Nightline” series, “America in Black and
White.” One report in this series was nominated for an Emmy Award, cited by the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for excellence in coverage of
racial and ethnic issues, and received special notice from TV Guide in its
“cheers” column for its candid look at racial stereotyping in news coverage.
Martin has also covered a wide range of stories for “Nightline,” including
government budget battles, challenges of bereaved families during the holidays,
embassy bombings in East Africa and earthquakes in Turkey.
Before joining “Nightline,” Martin reported for the ABC News magazine program,
“Day One,” where her reports ranged from an investigation into investments by
members of Congress; to her Emmy-nominated report, with Robert Krulwich, on
children’s racial attitudes; to a segment on the international campaign to ban the
use of land mines, for which she was awarded an Emmy.
Martin has also contributed to a number of other ABC programs and specials,
including an hour-long documentary on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas
controversy for ABC’s “Turning Point;” an hour-long, critically acclaimed special
on AIDS anchored by Barbara Walters; “Cedric’s Story,” about the challenge of
being a brilliant student in a tough inner-city school; and special political
coverage, including party convention reports and election night analysis.
Before joining ABC News, Ms. Martin covered state and local politics for the
Washington Post and national politics and policy at the Wall Street Journal,
where she was White House correspondent.
She has earned numerous awards, including the 1992 Candace Award for
Communications from The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the 1995
Joan Barone Award for Excellence in Washington-based National Affairs/Public
Policy Broadcasting given by the Radio and Television Correspondents’
Association.
Martin recently completed her sixth year as a member of the board of St. Paul’s
School in Concord, New Hampshire, where she was part of the third class of girls
to graduate from the formerly all-boys school. A native of Brooklyn, New York,
Ms. Martin was graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College at Harvard
University in 1980.
DOYLE MCMANUS: Washington Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times
Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, has
reported on presidential politics, national affairs and foreign policy from
Washington under four presidents. As a foreign correspondent, he has written
from more than 60 countries around the world - on wars in the Middle East and
Latin America, revolutions in Russia and Iran, and economic change in Europe
and Asia.
In addition to his appearances on “Washington Week,” McManus has appeared
on “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Meet the Press,” “Nightline,” “Good
Morning America,” and specials on CBS and PBS. McManus is coauthor of
Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988, a national bestseller
named by The New York Times as one of 1988’s most notable books and
Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World (1991, written with journalist
Robin Wright).
In 1995, for the third time he won the National Press Club’s Hood Award for
reporting on foreign policy. He has also won Georgetown University’s Weintal
Prize and New York University’s Olive Branch Award. He was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist, along with other Times correspondents, in both 1980 and 1992.
McManus joined the Los Angeles Times in 1978 after three years as a foreign
correspondent for United Press International. He has also written for Foreign
Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The London Daily Express
and Washington Journalism Review.
McManus graduated in 1974 from Stanford University, where he was associate
editor of The Stanford Daily. He was a campaign aide to Senator Alan Cranston
(D-California) in 1974 and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Brussels in
1975. He was a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees from 1987 to 1992
and has served on several other Stanford advisory boards.
ALAN MURRAY: Washington Bureau Chief, CNBC
Alan Murray is the Washington bureau chief for the cable financial news channel
CNBC.
In addition to his duties as bureau chief, Murray hosts the program “Capital
Report,” which can be seen four nights a week (Tuesday-Friday) on CNBC.
Prior to joining CNBC in early 2002, Murray was the Washington bureau chief for
the Wall Street Journal. He continues to write a weekly column for the Journal’s
Politics section.
Murray joined the Wall Street Journal in November 1983 as a reporter covering
economics in Washington. Named Washington deputy bureau chief in January
1992, he continued to cover major economics stories and periodically wrote the
paper’s “Outlook” column. He became bureau chief in September 1993.
Murray began his journalism career in 1977 as the business and economics
editor of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. He joined Congressional Quarterly in
Washington, D.C. as a reporter in 1980 and the following year became a reporter
at the Japan Economic Journal, in Tokyo, on a Luce fellowship. He returned to
Congressional Quarterly in 1982.
Murray and then-Journal reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum wrote Showdown at Gucci
Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform,
published in 1987 by Random House. They were awarded the American Political
Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award for the book in 1998.
Murray has won two Overseas Press Club awards (1991 and 1997) for his
writings on Asia.
In 1992, he received the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for
Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for his coverage of the Federal
Reserve.
Murray serves on the Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at
the University of Virginia and on the Board of Visitors at the University of North
Carolina.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Murray received a bachelor’s degree in English literature
from the University of North Carolina, where he was a John Motley Morehead
scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a master’s degree at the
London School of Economics.
Murray and his wife live in suburban Maryland with their two daughters.
MARTHA RADDATZ: Correspondent, ABC News
Martha Raddatz is an ABC News correspondent covering national security
issues. She joined ABC News in January 1999, and is based in the network’s
Washington bureau. In addition to her work for ABC News, Raddatz has written
for The New Republic.
Most recently, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public
Radio (NPR), where she reported on foreign policy, defense and intelligence
issues. During her tenure at NPR she made numerous trips to Eastern Europe to
cover the war in Bosnia. Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz worked at
WCVB-TV in Boston, where she reported international, national, local, and
investigative stories, with an emphasis on politics. In addition to also covering
several presidential campaigns, Raddatz has traveled extensively, writing and
reporting from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines
and Europe.
Raddatz has been honored for her journalistic contributions many times,
including a 1996 Overseas Press Club award for her live coverage of the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Her reporting was also recognized with the
National Headliner Award for team coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign.
She is the recipient of numerous honors, including six New England Emmys, and
awards from the Radio and Television News Director Association (RTNDA) and
the Associated Press.
Raddatz is married to Tom Gjelten, NPR’s diplomatic correspondent. She is the
mother of two children and resides in Washington, D.C. with her family.
DAVID E. SANGER: White House Correspondent, The New York Times
David E. Sanger is White House correspondent for The New York Times. In an
18-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and
Washington, focusing on a wide range of economic, political and security issues.
Sanger has specialized in the confluence of economic and foreign policy, and
has written extensively on globalization and how issues of national wealth and
competitiveness have come to redefine the relationships between the United
States and its major allies. As a correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo,
he covered Japan’s rise as the world’s second largest economic power, and then
its humbling recession. He also filed frequently from Southeast Asia, writing
about American and Japanese interests in the region.
Sanger also covered the Korean Peninsula, and wrote many of the first stories
about North Korea’s secret nuclear weapons program. Subsequently he covered
the American effort to dismantle the North’s nuclear threat.
Moving to Washington in 1994, he took up the position of chief Washington
economic correspondent, and covered a series of global economic upheavals,
from Mexico to the Asian economic crisis. He was named one of the
newspaper’s senior writers in March 1999, and White House correspondent later
that year.
Sanger joined the Times in the Business Day section, specializing in the
computer industry, high-technology trade, and national technology efforts
including the Strategic Defense Initiative. In 1986 he played a major role in the
team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster,
writing the first stories about what the space agency knew about the potential
flaws in the shuttle’s design and revealing that engineers had raised objections to
launching the shuttle. The team won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national
reporting. In 1999, he was a member of another Pulitzer-winning team that wrote
about the struggles within the Clinton administration over controlling exports to
China.
Born in White Plains, New York, Sanger was educated in the public school
system there and graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard
College in 1982.
ALEXIS SIMENDINGER: White House Correspondent, National Journal
A native of Washington, D.C., Alexis Simendinger has been a reporter in the
capital since 1986, and is covering her third president.
She joined National Journal - a nonpartisan weekly magazine known for its indepth coverage of U.S. politics and government - as White House correspondent
in May 1997.
Before joining the magazine, she covered the White House for the Bureau of
National Affairs Inc. (BNA), a private news and information publisher in
Washington that concentrates on the intricacies of federal policy. She was part
of a team of BNA reporters that won a National Press Club reporting award in
1996.
Prior to working in Washington as a reporter, Simendinger wrote for The Tampa
Tribune in Tampa, Florida, from 1983-1986.
Simendinger earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of
Missouri-Columbia and her B.A. from New College in Sarasota, Florida.
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