Mike
Allen is the
chief political correspondent for Politico.com. He came to Politico from Time magazine where he was their White
House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington
Post, where he
covered President Bush’s first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the
Bush, Gore, and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics,
he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg,
Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb
and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Andrew Cline is the editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader, a position he has held for the past six years. Before that he was director of publications at the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a freelance columnist for The News & Observer of Raleigh. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with degrees in history and journalism in 1993.
Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, America’s Women: 400 Yearsof Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines. She returned to The Times as a columnist in July 2007.
Matthew Cooper isthe Washington Editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. Cooper spent seven years at Time, serving as deputy Washington Bureau Chief, White House correspondent, and political editor of Time.com. From 1996 to 1999, Cooper covered Washington for Newsweek. He also wrote the White House Watch column for the New Republic, was Atlanta Bureau Chief for U.S. News & World Report, and served as an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written for multiple publications, including TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate. Cooper moonlights as a stand-up comedian and was named Washington’s funniest celebrity in 1998.
E.J. Dionne is a twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post, writing on national policy and politics. Before joining The Post in 1990 as a political reporter, he spent 14 years at The New York Times, covering local, state, and national politics, and also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. Dionne began his column for The Post in 1993. He is a University Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Dionne has been a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s “This Week,” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” His book Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), won The LosAngeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. He is also author of Stand UpFight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics ofRevenge (2004), and They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate TheNext Political Era (1996).
Ron Fournier is the Online Political Editor for The Associated Press, where he has reported on Congress, the White House, and actions of both major parties that impacted the national political landscape. Fournier is the co-author of Applebee’s America: What Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Can Learn from Each Other. He is the winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2000 Sigma Delta Chi Award for coverage of that election as well of the prestigious White House Correspondents Association Merriman Smith award for his coverage of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks from inside the evacuated mansion. He has won this award twice before: while covering the Clinton White House, and in 1997 for exclusive coverage of President Clinton’s second-term Cabinet selections. In 2005 he served as a Harvard Fellow for the spring semester at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
Ed Henry is CNN’s White House correspondent based in the nation’s capital. He was named to this position in March 2006. Prior to joining the White House unit, Henry covered Capitol Hill for CNN. During that time, he was on the frontlines of many stories, from breaking the news that Dubai Ports World would not move forward with its plan to take control of six U.S. ports to winning an exclusive interview with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during the final days of Terri Schaivo’s life in March 2005. In February 2006, Henry was awarded the prestigious Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation for the depth and breadth of his coverage throughout 2005. Henry joined CNN in April 2004 after having been senior editor and a columnist for Roll Call, a leading Capitol Hill newspaper, for eight years.
Brit Hume is FOX News’ Washington, D.C. managing editor, with more than 35 years of journalism experience. Hume serves as anchor of “Special Report with Brit Hume,” the highest rated political program on cable television, which airs weekdays on FOX News Channel (FNC) from 6-7 p.m. ET. He also serves as a regular panelist on FOX’s weekly public affairs program, “FOX News Sunday.” In addition to covering major political stories, elections and contributing news analysis to FOX News Channel, Hume is responsible for overseeing news content for FOX News’ Washington, D.C. bureau. Before joining FOX News in 1996, Hume was with ABC News for 23 years, serving as chief White House correspondent from 1989 through 1996. Hume has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2003 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from the National Press Foundation.
Michael Isikoff is an Investigative Correspondent for Newsweek. He has written extensively on the U.S. government’s war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics, and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the weekly online Web column “Terror Watch,” which won the 2005 award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best investigative reporting online. Isikoff’s exclusive reporting on the Monica Lewinsky scandal coverage of the events that lead to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment earned Newsweek the prestigious National Magazine Award in the Reporting category in 1999. Isikoff is the author of Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’sStory, a book that chronicled his own reporting of the Lewinsky story.
Bob Kerrey is the President of The New School, a university founded on strong democratic ideals and daring educational practices. For twelve years prior to becoming President of New School University, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Prior to coming to the Senate, Kerrey served one four-year term as Governor of the State of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987. Before that he served as Nebraska’s Governor for four years. Kerrey is a former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team, the Navy’s version of the Green Berets, and is a highly decorated Viet Nam veteran who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
James Leach is the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Kennedy School, Leach taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Leach was elected in 1976 to Congress and served for 30 years. In Congress he chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Leach serves on the board of several public companies as well as the Century Foundation, the Kettering Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly served as a trustee of Princeton University. Leach holds eight honorary degrees and has received decorations from two foreign governments.
Mark Mellman is the CEO of The Mellman Group, a polling and consulting firm whose clients include leading political figures, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the nation’s most important public interest groups. The Mellman Group counts among its clients the Majority Leaders of both the U.S. House and Senate. In addition to Harry Reid, Senate clients includes Maria Cantwell, Dan Akaka, Barbara Boxer, Carl Levin, and Frank Lautenberg. Gubernatorial clients include Jon Corzine, Jennifer Granholm, and Jim Doyle. In 2006, the National Journal named Mellman its “Top Insider” for providing the most accurate predictions of the 2006 election cycle. He has served as a consultant on politics to CBS News, a presidential debate analyst for PBS, and on the faculty of The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
Alan Murray is Assistant Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal, with responsibilities that include writing twice-weekly columns on business, the economy and public policy. Prior to that, he was the Washington Bureau chief for the cable financial news channel CNBC. In addition to his duties as bureau chief, Murray hosted the program “Capital Report” Prior to joining CNBC in early 2002, Murray was the Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Murray serves on the 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.
Mike Murphy is a founding principal and member of the Executive Committee of Navigators. Murphy, one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, has handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, including the successful gubernatorial races of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Tommy Thompson, and Christie Whitman. In 2000, he served as senior strategist for U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. In 2003, he was senior strategist for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic recall election in California. Murphy is a regular election analyst on “Meet the Press with Tim Russert.” In 2001, he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard’s JFK School of Government.
Frank Newport is the Editor-in-Chief of the Gallup Poll and Vice President of the Gallup Organization in Princeton, New Jersey.He is in charge of the Gallup Poll assessment of American public opinion, which has been continuously measuring public moods and attitudes in this country since the 1930’s. His articles and reviews have appeared in the American Sociological Review, The New York Times, The American Journalist Quarterly, the Journal of Political and Medical Sociology, Social Forces, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Public Perspective. He is the co-author of TheEvangelical Voter: Religion and Politics in the U.S. and contributed to both the 1996 and 1997 editions of Where America Stands, published by John Wiley. Newport has appeared regularly on television and radio programs as a guest expert on public opinion, politics and polling.
Norah O’Donnell is the Chief Washington Correspondent for NBC News’ 24-hour cable channel MSNBC. In addition, O’Donnell serves as a contributing correspondent for NBC’s top-rated Today. O’Donnell served as White House correspondent for NBC News from September 2003 to May 2005, reporting for NBC News broadcasts, including the top-rated“Nightly News,” “Today,” and MSNBC. She received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage for a “Dateline NBC” story titled, “DC in Crisis,” on the night of September 11, 2001. Prior to joining NBC News, O’Donnell was a staff writer for Roll Call, the Capitol Hill Newspaper, where she covered Congress. She also traveled across the country to cover numerous House and Senate contests. From 1997-1999, O’Donnell was also a contributor and news analyst for MSNBC.
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassin’sGate. In addition to his coverage of Iraq, he has written on the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, and the Al-Jazeera satellite news channel. Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards for his work in 2003, one for his Iraq coverage and the other for his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. Packer has contributed articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to New York Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, Harper’s, and other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Columbia. Packer is the author of “The Village of Waiting” about his experience in Africa. His book “Blood of the Liberals” won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Richard Prince writes “Richard Prince's Journal-isms,” a three-times-a-week column on diversity issues in the news media, for the Web site of the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education. He also works part-time as a copy editor on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, and from its 2002 founding until September, edited the Black College Wire, a news service for black college students that aims to improve college newspapers and increase their frequency. He chairs the Diversity Committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and for many years, chaired the Media Monitoring Committee of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jake Tapper is Senior Political Correspondent and Senior National Correspondent for ABC News. He is based in the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau covering Capitol Hill and he also serves as ABC News’ senior political correspondent during the 2008 elections. Tapper contributes regularly to “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “World News with Charles Gibson” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Since joining ABC News in July 2003, Tapper has reported on a wide range of stories, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the investigation into the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, and the debate over Terri Schiavo. Tapper was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com from March 1999 to March 2002.
John Walcott is the Washington Bureau Chief for the McClatchy Co., the nation’s second-largest newspaper company. Washington Bureau Chief, started as the bureau’s first foreign editor in December 1997. He has been foreign editor and national editor of U.S. News & World Report, national security correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and a correspondent at Newsweek. His work has won the Edward M. Hood Award and the Freedom of the Press Award from the National Press Club and three Overseas Press Club awards. In 2005, he was part of a team that won a National Headliners Award for “How the Bush Administration Went to War in Iraq.’’
Christine Todd Whitman is a formerGovernor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001.She is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in government relations, energy and environmental issues. She is also the author of TheNew York Times best seller, It’s My Party Too, published in January of 2005 and released in paperback in March 2006. Whitman founded a political action committee by the same name to support Republican candidates. Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003.
Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University and director of the University’s American Studies program. He writes on U.S. social and political history, specializing in the early nation and Jacksonian democracy. He is author of Chants Democratic (Oxford, 1984) which won several national prizes, including the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, and The Kingdom of Matthias (Oxford, 1994). Wilentz also is a contributing editor to The New Republic. His latest book, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008, will be published in May by HarperCollins.
John Zogby is the President and CEO of Zogby International. Zogby remains by all accounts the hottest pollster in the United States today. Since 1996, Zogby has polled for Reuters News Agency, the largest news agency in the world, and in 2000 to 2004, polled for NBC News, the network news watched by most Americans. His clients also include MSNBC, CNBC, the New York Post, FOX News, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Gannett News Service, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and nearly every daily newspaper in New York State, as well as television stations throughout the U.S.
Mortimer Zuckerman is the editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report. He is also chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News and has substantial real-estate holdings, including properties in Boston, New York, Washington, and San Francisco. Zuckerman serves as a trustee for New York University, Director and Member of the Executive Committee of WNET/Channel 13 New York, a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, a Member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Visitors, and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Mike
Allen is the
chief political correspondent for Politico.com. He came to Politico from Time magazine where he was their White
House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington
Post, where he
covered President Bush’s first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the
Bush, Gore, and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics,
he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg,
Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb
and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Andrew Cline is the editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader, a position he has held for the past six years. Before that he was director of publications at the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a freelance columnist for The News & Observer of Raleigh. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with degrees in history and journalism in 1993.
Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines. She returned to The Times as a columnist in July 2007.
E.J. Dionne is a twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post, writing on national policy and politics. Before joining The Post in 1990 as a political reporter, he spent 14 years at The New York Times, covering local, state, and national politics, and also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome, and Beirut. Dionne began his column for The Post in 1993. He is a University Professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Dionne has been a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s “This Week,” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” His book Why Americans Hate Politics (1991), won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. He is also author of Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge (2004), and They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era (1996). 
Brit Hume is FOX News’ Washington, D.C. managing editor, with more than 35 years of journalism experience. Hume serves as anchor of “Special Report with Brit Hume,” the highest rated political program on cable television, which airs weekdays on FOX News Channel (FNC) from 6-7 p.m. ET. He also serves as a regular panelist on FOX’s weekly public affairs program, “FOX News Sunday.” In addition to covering major political stories, elections and contributing news analysis to FOX News Channel, Hume is responsible for overseeing news content for FOX News’ Washington, D.C. bureau. Before joining FOX News in 1996, Hume was with ABC News for 23 years, serving as chief White House correspondent from 1989 through 1996. Hume has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2003 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from the National Press Foundation.
Michael Isikoff is an Investigative Correspondent for Newsweek. He has written extensively on the U.S. government’s war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics, and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the weekly online Web column “Terror Watch,” which won the 2005 award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best investigative reporting online. Isikoff’s exclusive reporting on the Monica Lewinsky scandal coverage of the events that lead to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment earned Newsweek the prestigious National Magazine Award in the Reporting category in 1999. Isikoff is the author of Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story, a book that chronicled his own reporting of the Lewinsky story. 
Bob Kerrey is the President of The New School, a university founded on strong democratic ideals and daring educational practices. For twelve years prior to becoming President of New School University, Bob Kerrey represented the State of Nebraska in the United States Senate. Prior to coming to the Senate, Kerrey served one four-year term as Governor of the State of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987. Before that he served as Nebraska’s Governor for four years. Kerrey is a former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team, the Navy’s version of the Green Berets, and is a highly decorated Viet Nam veteran who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. 
James Leach is the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Kennedy School, Leach taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. Leach was elected in 1976 to Congress and served for 30 years. In Congress he chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Leach serves on the board of several public companies as well as the Century Foundation, the Kettering Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly served as a trustee of Princeton University. Leach holds eight honorary degrees and has received decorations from two foreign governments.
Alan Murray is Assistant Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal, with responsibilities that include writing twice-weekly columns on business, the economy and public policy. Prior to that, he was the Washington Bureau chief for the cable financial news channel CNBC. In addition to his duties as bureau chief, Murray hosted the program “Capital Report” Prior to joining CNBC in early 2002, Murray was the Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Murray serves on the 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.
Norah O’Donnell is the Chief Washington Correspondent for NBC News’ 24-hour cable channel MSNBC. In addition, O’Donnell serves as a contributing correspondent for NBC’s top-rated Today. O’Donnell served as White House correspondent for NBC News from September 2003 to May 2005, reporting for NBC News broadcasts, including the top-rated“Nightly News,” “Today,” and MSNBC. She received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage for a “Dateline NBC” story titled, “DC in Crisis,” on the night of September 11, 2001. Prior to joining NBC News, O’Donnell was a staff writer for Roll Call, the Capitol Hill Newspaper, where she covered Congress. She also traveled across the country to cover numerous House and Senate contests. From 1997-1999, O’Donnell was also a contributor and news analyst for MSNBC.
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassin’s Gate. In addition to his coverage of Iraq, he has written on the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, and the Al-Jazeera satellite news channel. Packer was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards for his work in 2003, one for his Iraq coverage and the other for his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. Packer has contributed articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to New York Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, Harper’s, and other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Columbia. Packer is the author of “The Village of Waiting” about his experience in Africa. His book “Blood of the Liberals” won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Richard Prince writes “Richard Prince's Journal-isms,” a three-times-a-week column on diversity issues in the news media, for the Web site of the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education. He also works part-time as a copy editor on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, and from its 2002 founding until September, edited the Black College Wire, a news service for black college students that aims to improve college newspapers and increase their frequency. He chairs the Diversity Committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and for many years, chaired the Media Monitoring Committee of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jake Tapper is Senior Political Correspondent and Senior National Correspondent for ABC News. He is based in the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau covering Capitol Hill and he also serves as ABC News’ senior political correspondent during the 2008 elections. Tapper contributes regularly to “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “World News with Charles Gibson” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Since joining ABC News in July 2003, Tapper has reported on a wide range of stories, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the investigation into the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, and the debate over Terri Schiavo. Tapper was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com from March 1999 to March 2002.
Christine Todd Whitman is a former Governor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001.She is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm that specializes in government relations, energy and environmental issues. She is also the author of The New York Times best seller, It’s My Party Too, published in January of 2005 and released in paperback in March 2006. Whitman founded a political action committee by the same name to support Republican candidates. Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003.
John Zogby is the President and CEO of Zogby International. Zogby remains by all accounts the hottest pollster in the United States today. Since 1996, Zogby has polled for Reuters News Agency, the largest news agency in the world, and in 2000 to 2004, polled for NBC News, the network news watched by most Americans. His clients also include MSNBC, CNBC, the New York Post, FOX News, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Gannett News Service, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and nearly every daily newspaper in New York State, as well as television stations throughout the U.S.
Mortimer Zuckerman is the editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report. He is also chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News and has substantial real-estate holdings, including properties in Boston, New York, Washington, and San Francisco. Zuckerman serves as a trustee for New York University, Director and Member of the Executive Committee of WNET/Channel 13 New York, a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, a Member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Visitors, and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.