Jonathan Karl
Political journalist and author
Jonathan Karl is an American political journalist and author who has served as chief Washington correspondent for ABC News. His 2023 book is Tired of Winning.
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American Born 1968
About Jonathan Karl
Jonathan Karl was born in 1968 and has covered the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department. He has reported from more than 30 countries. At ABC News he has been chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He served as ABC's chief White House correspondent from December 2012 until January 2021, and was president of the White House Correspondents' Association in 2019 and 2020. He began reporting on Donald Trump in the early 1990s, while working at The New York Post. His honors include the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement. Karl has written Front Row at the Trump Show (2020) and Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show (2021), and both reached the New York Times bestseller list. His 2023 book Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party was followed by Retribution in 2025.