American investigative journalist
Robert Costa
(born October 14, 1985) is an American political reporter who is the chief election and campaign correspondent for
CBS News
.
[3]
Prior to joining CBS in 2022, Costa was a longtime national political reporter for
The Washington Post
. Previously, he was a political analyst for
NBC News
and
MSNBC
and the moderator and managing editor of
Washington Week
on
PBS
.
[4]
[5]
He is the co-author with
Bob Woodward
of
Peril
, a # 1
New York Times
bestseller on the final days of the
Trump presidency
, including the
2021 United States Capitol attack
.
[6]
Education and early life
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Costa was born October 14, 1985, in
Richmond, Virginia
, the son of attorneys Anne-Dillon (nee Dalton) and Thomas E. Costa.
[1]
[7]
[8]
His father worked as an attorney for pharmaceutical company
Bristol-Myers Squibb
.
[9]
He has three siblings.
[10]
He is of partial
Italian
descent.
[11]
He grew up in
Lower Makefield Township
,
Bucks County
,
Pennsylvania
, where he attended
Pennsbury High School
and graduated in 2004. While Costa was at Pennsbury,
Sports Illustrated
writer
Michael Bamberger
profiled him in the book
Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School
.
[12]
He was also friends with actor
Zach Woods
and journalist
Hallie Jackson
, two fellow Pennsbury students.
[13]
Costa gained notice during high school for bringing rock musicians such as
John Mayer
,
Eve 6
, and
Maroon 5
to perform at the school. He also reported for
The Bucks County Courier Times
, interviewing bands and reviewing concerts in the Philadelphia area, and covered professional and local sports for PHS-TV, the student television station.
[14]
He earned a bachelor's degree in American studies from the
University of Notre Dame
in 2008 and a master's degree in politics from the
University of Cambridge
in 2009. During his time at Notre Dame, Costa held internships at PBS'
Charlie Rose
, ABC's
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
, and in the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
. On campus, he hosted and produced an interview program for ND-TV called
Office Hours
.
At Cambridge, Costa was an active member of the
Cambridge Union
debating society and focused his research on
Winston Churchill
and
United Kingdom?United States relations
. His adviser was
Andrew Gamble
, a British academic and author.
Costa was on the board of trustees at Notre Dame from 2014 to 2017.
[15]
[16]
Career
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Costa was a Robert L. Bartley Fellow at
The Wall Street Journal
.
[17]
In 2010, he was hired as a reporter by the conservative magazine
National Review
.
[18]
[19]
In December 2012, he was promoted to the position of Washington editor for
National Review
.
[19]
While at
National Review
, Costa was a contributor for
CNBC
, appearing on
The Kudlow Report
, and for
MSNBC
.
[19]
In 2013, during the
United States federal government shutdown
, Costa's reporting on the Republican Party in Congress was widely praised.
[20]
[17]
The New Republic
called him "the most important reporter in the country over the past few weeks"
[18]
and
Slate
writer
David Weigel
called him "omnipresent."
[21]
New York
magazine called him "the golden boy of the government shutdown."
[20]
Costa has not identified his political views publicly, saying only that he's not on the "conservative team."
[18]
He has cited
Jim Lehrer
,
Gwen Ifill
,
Robert Caro
[22]
and
Tim Russert
[23]
as influences.
In November 2013, he left
National Review
for
The Washington Post
, joining the paper officially in January 2014.
[17]
On December 10, 2015, Costa was named a political analyst for both
NBC
and
MSNBC
.
[24]
Costa is known for his deep sourcing within national political circles. He has interviewed President
Donald Trump
on multiple occasions.
Politico
has called him the "Trump whisperer."
[25]
In March 2016, Costa interviewed Trump with
Bob Woodward
,
[26]
who has been a mentor to him.
[27]
Costa served as guest host of PBS'
Charlie Rose
in March 2017.
In April 2017, Costa became the moderator of the long-running
Washington Week
news magazine
program on
PBS
, following the death of moderator
Gwen Ifill
.
[28]
Costa frequently hosted top mainstream news reporters on the program. "I've always worked to be highly disciplined in my reporting. ... to be sensitive to constant objectivity," Costa told the Associated Press in 2017.
[29]
On January 1, 2021, Costa hosted his last episode of the
Washington Week
program on
PBS
. He left the television program to write a book with
Bob Woodward
.
[30]
The book, entitled
Peril
, was released in September 2021.
[31]
The book debuted at #1 on
The New York Times
bestseller list and spent nine weeks
[32]
on the
Times'
bestseller list for nonfiction books.
[33]
To promote the book, Woodward and Costa appeared on
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
,
[34]
The View
,
Meet the Press
,
[35]
Good Morning America
,
[36]
and other programs. In October 2021, Costa was a solo guest on NPR's
Fresh Air
with
Terry Gross
.
[37]
The book has been cited in subpoenas issued by the
United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
.
[38]
In 2022, he left
The Washington Post
to join
CBS News
as the network's chief election and campaign correspondent.
[3]
CBS said Costa would be a "pivotal correspondent" in its coverage of the 2022 midterm elections, the 2024 presidential election, and "the evolving state of American democracy."
[39]
Costa told the
Associated Press
that
The Washington Post
is a "first class organization" and that he was open to potential collaborations between the newspaper and CBS News.
[40]
Costa has also filled in on the
CBS Weekend News
on occasion.
[41]
During his tenure at
CBS News
, Costa has been a frequent contributor to
CBS Sunday Morning
. In 2023, Costa and colleagues at
CBS Sunday Morning
won an Emmy Award at the
44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards
. Costa was cited for his work as a contributing correspondent to the show, which won for "Outstanding Recorded News Program."
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Bibliography
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My late Italian-American grandfather, Jim Costa, was the son of immigrants and respected Iacocca. On every visit, I remember seeing Iacocca's autobiography on his bookshelf. RIP.
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Peril
. Simon & Schuster.
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.
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