Karen Tumulty

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Karen Tumulty
Tumulty in 2018
Born ( 1955-12-01 ) December 1, 1955 (age 68) [1]
San Antonio , Texas , U.S.
Occupation Political columnist
Notable credit(s) The Washington Post , Time
Spouse Paul Richter
Children 2

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 .

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References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Tumulty, Karen [@@ktumulty] (December 2, 2013). "Thanks, tweeps, for all the lovely birthday..." ( Tweet ) . Retrieved November 22, 2015 – via Twitter .
  2. ^ Calderone, Michael (March 30, 2010). "Time's Tumulty joins WaPo" . Politico .
  3. ^ Tumulty, Karen (April 9, 2010). "A Personal Note About TIME" . Time .
  4. ^ Hardy, Michael (January 2011). "Editor with an Edge" . The Alcalde : 65.
  5. ^ a b c Emmons, Garry (February 1, 2002). "History's First Draft: Karen Tumulty Reports on America" . Harvard Business School Bulletin . p. 10.
  6. ^ a b "Karen Tumulty" . Washington Post . Retrieved 2016-10-18 .
  7. ^ Tumulty, Karen (2018-08-19). "Opinion | Why am I still a Catholic?" . Washington Post . Retrieved 2018-08-30 .
  8. ^ "Loeb Award winners 1958?1996" . Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing . April 2013 . Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  9. ^ Tumulty, Karen (September 18, 2008). "McCain Plays the Race Card" . Time . Retrieved 2008-09-21 .
  10. ^ "No Time for the Facts" . johnmccain.com . September 19, 2008. Archived from the original on September 21, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-09-21 .
  11. ^ "Karen Tumulty to join The Washington Post Opinions section as columnist" . The Washington Post . January 31, 2018.
  12. ^ "The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty named deputy editorial page editor" . The Washington Post . July 1, 2021.
  13. ^ 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 .
  14. ^ Tumulty, Karen (March 5, 2009). "The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home" . Time . Archived from the original on March 7, 2009 . Retrieved 2010-03-22 .
  15. ^ "Stories & Most Recent Appearances by Karen Tumulty | Washington Week" . PBS . Retrieved 2011-08-21 .
  16. ^ "GOP contenders fight to stand out to New Hampshire voters" . PBS NewsHour . April 20, 2015.
  17. ^ "Politics ? Apr 09, 2011 ? Fox News All-Stars" . RealClearPolitics . April 9, 2011 . Retrieved 2011-08-21 .
  18. ^ Parker, Kathleen (May 1, 2012). "The unknown celebrity" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 2012-05-03 .

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