Jonathan Karl Biography
Jonathan Karl is a well-known Political Journalist and author, he is also the Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News. He wrote the book “Front Row at the Trump Show.” Karl got an Emmy award nomination for his coverage of the genocide in Sudan.
Jonathan Karl Education
Karl graduated from Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Jonathan Karl ABC News
Jonathan Karl is the Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News. He was the former President of the White House Correspondents’ Association and wrote the book “Front Row at the Trump Show” (March 2020). Karl has experience covering U.S. politics, foreign policy and the military. He has reported more than 30 countries.
His reports drove to news cycles and has been recognized with the most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement and the National Press Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for Congressional reporting.
He is also one of the few journalists to win the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Association’s Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting twice, in 2010 and 2015.
He earned an Emmy Award for his coverage of President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration. Karl was designated the most used reporter on The Tyndall Report in 2017 and 2018, clocking more airtime than any other network reporter during Trump’s first two years in office. Karl has covered the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the State Department, among other prominent Washington beats.
He’s covered four presidents and more than a dozen press secretaries from the White House. Karl has covered the presidential elections in seven different countries. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he had the first network interview with Donald Trump, the first presidential candidate interview with Bernie Sanders, and a rare, exclusive interview with reclusive billionaire Charles Koch.
Karl established a reputation as a tough government watchdog for his rigorous probes into government waste during his 15 years in Washington. Karl joined ABC News as a senior foreign affairs correspondent covering the State Department in January 2003. With Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he traveled throughout the world.
Karl was promoted to senior national security correspondent in December 2005. He covered the situation in Darfur, Sudan, extensively in 2005, visiting the war-torn region three times and earning an Emmy nomination for his reporting.
Karl has conducted interviews with Elton John, Mariano Rivera, Barbra Streisand, Pete Townshend of “The Who,” George Clooney, Ernie Banks, Yoko Ono, the Dalai Lama, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, singer/songwriter James Taylor, and other notable individuals from sports and popular culture. He worked for CNN as a congressional journalist before joining ABC News.
Jonathan Karl Salary
Karl earns a yearly salary of $ 106k dollars.
Jonathan Karl Net worth
Karl has an estimated net worth of $ 11 million dollars.
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Jonathan Karl Age
Karl is 54 years old as of 2021. He was born on January 19, 1968.
Jonathan Karl Height
Karl stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Jonathan Karl Family
Karl has a brother, Alan Karl. Alan whose an author, adventurer, and speaker.
Jonathan Karl Wife
Karl is married to his beautiful wife Maria Karl. The couple has two daughters together Emily and Anna.
Jonathan Karl Betrayal
Karl wrote the book “Front Row at the Trump Show.”His book Front Row at the Trump Show, written prior to the COVID-19 epidemic, was released in March 2020. It debuted at number three on the New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best selling list on April 19, 2020, and spent five weeks in the top fifteen.
In March 2021, the book was published in paperback with a new afterword, and it debuted at number six on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction best seller list.