Ken Rudin is an American radio journalist .

Early life and education [ edit ]

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Rudin was born in the Bronx in New York City, where he attended P.S. 64, J.H.S. 82 and William Howard Taft High School . After high school, he moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey . He graduated from Pace University with a B.A. in political science.

Career [ edit ]

During the 1960s, Rudin began collecting campaign buttons ; he now has a collection of more than 70,000 campaign items. ^[1]

Rudin spent eight years from 1983 to 1991 at ABC News , where he was the deputy political director and reportorial producer on Capitol Hill. He was also managing editor of The Hotline from 1994 to 1997. ^{[ citation needed ]}

He was the political editor for National Public Radio (NPR) and was involved with political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also co-hosted a weekly podcast called It's All Politics , a segment called "The Political Junkie" on the NPR program Talk of the Nation , and wrote a column of the same name for npr.org. ^[2]

After leaving NPR in 2013, Rudin began his own weekly program, Ken Rudin's Political Junkie . ^[3]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• The Political Junkie - Ken Rudin's Political blog on NPR.org
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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