Jonathan Karl Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the 2011 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting
• Won the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for Congressional reporting, in 2001
• In 1990, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College
• Was the editor-in-chief of "The Vassar Spectator" in college
• His reporting experience covers U․S․ politics, foreign policy and the military
• Was named Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News in 2012
• His aggressive investigative journalism shed light on government waste and earned him a reputation as a government watchdog
• A new effort to sell off unused government real estate went underway because of his reports on vacant federal buildings
• Anchored for more than 14 hours straight during election night coverage in 2004
• The rules for the travel costs of members of Congress and their staffs were changed following his reporting on Congressional junkets