American journalist
Karen Tumulty
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Tumulty in 2018
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Born
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1955-12-01
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December 1, 1955
(age 68)
[1]
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Occupation
| Political columnist
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Notable credit(s)
| The Washington Post
,
Time
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Spouse
| Paul Richter
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Children
| 2
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Karen Tumulty
(born December 1, 1955) is a political columnist for
The Washington Post
.
[2]
Before joining the
Post
, Tumulty wrote for
Time
from October 1994 to April 2010. She was a Congressional Correspondent, as well as the National Political Correspondent based in
Washington D.C.
for the magazine.
[3]
Life
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Tumulty graduated from
David Crockett High School
in
Austin
,
Texas
in May 1973. She later graduated in 1977 from the
University of Texas at Austin
with a BA in
Journalism
with high honors; she is an alumna of the
Alpha Xi Delta
sorority. She wrote for
The Daily Texan
student newspaper.
[4]
She received an MBA from
Harvard Business School
in 1981.
[5]
Tumulty is married to Paul Richter and has two sons, Nicholas and Jack.
[6]
She is
Catholic
.
[7]
Career
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Tumulty began her career in 1977 at the now-defunct
San Antonio Light
. Tumulty spent 14 years with the
Los Angeles Times
, covering the
US Congress
, economics, business, energy, and general-assignment beats. While at the
Times
, she won the
Gerald Loeb Award
for distinguished business and financial journalism in 1982 for Large Newspapers,
[8]
and the
National Press Foundation
's Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993.
[5]
Tumulty joined
Time
in 1994. She covered Congress for two years, during which time she reported and wrote the magazine's 1995 "Man of the Year" profile of
Newt Gingrich
.
[5]
In 1996, she became a White House Correspondent, writing major stories on President
Bill Clinton
and
Hillary Clinton
. She became the National Political Correspondent in 2001.
In the
2008 presidential campaign
, Tumulty accused the campaign of Senator
John McCain
of "playing the
race card
" for a television ad criticizing the connections between Senator
Barack Obama
and
Franklin Raines
, the former CEO of
Fannie Mae
. Tumulty wrote that the ad displayed "sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman."
[9]
The McCain campaign pointed out that they had also produced an ad criticizing the connections of Barack Obama to
Jim Johnson
, another former Fannie Mae CEO who is white. According to the McCain campaign, Tumulty did not correct her post, but responded with "I grew up in Texas. I know what this stuff looks like." The McCain campaign accused Tumulty of "hysterical
liberal
bias."
[10]
In 2010, Tumulty joined
The Washington Post
, where she received the
2013 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting
.
[6]
She became a political columnist in 2018.
[11]
In 2021, she was named deputy editorial page editor.
[12]
Tumulty's coverage of health care reform issues has been informed by her personal experience with her brother Patrick's health problems.
[13]
[14]
Besides her work in print journalism, she has appeared as a
television
/
webcasting
news analyst on the
public affairs
programs
Washington Week
on
PBS
,
[15]
PBS NewsHour
,
[16]
and
Special Report with Bret Baier
on
Fox News
(as part of the 'All-Star Panel').
[17]
Admiral
William H. McRaven
, her
fifth grade
classmate and
commander
of
USSOCOM
, was her guest at the 2012
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
.
[18]
Adm. McRaven commanded
JSOC
when it planned and carried out
Operation Neptune Spear
, the
U.S. Navy
SEAL raid that killed
Osama bin Laden
.
See also
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References
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- ^
Tumulty, Karen [@@ktumulty] (December 2, 2013).
"Thanks, tweeps, for all the lovely birthday..."
(
Tweet
)
. Retrieved
November 22,
2015
– via
Twitter
.
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Calderone, Michael (March 30, 2010).
"Time's Tumulty joins WaPo"
.
Politico
.
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Tumulty, Karen (April 9, 2010).
"A Personal Note About TIME"
.
Time
.
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Hardy, Michael (January 2011).
"Editor with an Edge"
.
The Alcalde
: 65.
- ^
a
b
c
Emmons, Garry (February 1, 2002).
"History's First Draft: Karen Tumulty Reports on America"
.
Harvard Business School Bulletin
. p. 10.
- ^
a
b
"Karen Tumulty"
.
Washington Post
. Retrieved
2016-10-18
.
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Tumulty, Karen (2018-08-19).
"Opinion | Why am I still a Catholic?"
.
Washington Post
. Retrieved
2018-08-30
.
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"Loeb Award winners 1958?1996"
.
Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing
. April 2013
. Retrieved
February 6,
2019
.
- ^
Tumulty, Karen (September 18, 2008).
"McCain Plays the Race Card"
.
Time
. Retrieved
2008-09-21
.
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"No Time for the Facts"
.
johnmccain.com
. September 19, 2008. Archived from
the original
on September 21, 2008
. Retrieved
2008-09-21
.
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"Karen Tumulty to join The Washington Post Opinions section as columnist"
.
The Washington Post
. January 31, 2018.
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"The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty named deputy editorial page editor"
.
The Washington Post
. July 1, 2021.
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Cohen, Elizabeth S. (2010).
The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time
(Unabridged ed.). New York: Random House. p. 112.
ISBN
978-0-345-52311-2
.
- ^
Tumulty, Karen (March 5, 2009).
"The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home"
.
Time
. Archived from
the original
on March 7, 2009
. Retrieved
2010-03-22
.
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"Stories & Most Recent Appearances by Karen Tumulty | Washington Week"
. PBS
. Retrieved
2011-08-21
.
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"GOP contenders fight to stand out to New Hampshire voters"
.
PBS NewsHour
. April 20, 2015.
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"Politics ? Apr 09, 2011 ? Fox News All-Stars"
.
RealClearPolitics
. April 9, 2011
. Retrieved
2011-08-21
.
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Parker, Kathleen
(May 1, 2012).
"The unknown celebrity"
.
The Washington Post
. Retrieved
2012-05-03
.
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