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JONATHAN KARL
ABC News' Senior National Security Correspondent
Jonathan Karl was named ABC News' Senior National Security Correspondent in December 2005. In the role he covers the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and the State Department on behalf of "World News," "Nightline," "Good Morning America" and all other ABC News broadcasts and platforms.
Mr. Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network's Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent covering the State Department. He has traveled the world for ABC News, reporting from more than two dozen countries on five continents. He reported more extensively on the situation in Darfur, Sudan than other network correspondent, visiting Sudan three times in 2005. He has also broken several stories on Iran's nuclear program and covered the 2004 Presidential elections in Russia. Mr. Karl has also traveled internationally with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
In 2004 Mr. Karl spent several months on the campaign trail covering the Bush-Cheney campaign. He co-anchored election night coverage on ABC News Now, anchoring for more than 14 straight hours.
Mr. Karl previously served as a congressional correspondent for CNN. In his eight years with CNN, he covered Capitol Hill, the White House and the Pentagon. While there, he reported on two presidential elections, President Clinton's impeachment, the NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia and congressional reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In 2001 Mr. Karl won The National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for Congressional reporting.
During his time on Capitol Hill, Mr. Karl was the first to report on two of the most significant congressional stories in recent years: Senator Jim Jefford's decision to leave the Republican Party and Trent Lott's decision to step down as Senate Majority Leader. And in 1998, Mr. Karl was the first reporter to obtain the Starr Report, one of the most sought after political documents in recent years.
Prior to joining CNN, Mr. Karl worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Post, where he covered Rudy Giuliani's City Hall and the 1994 Cuomo-Pataki gubernatorial race. He has also worked as a researcher and reporter for The New Republic, where he covered a variety of issues ranging from international affairs to American politics to education.
A prolific writer, his work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, The Christian Science Monitor and The San Francisco Chronicle. In December 1995, Mr. Karl's non-fiction book, "The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias," was published by Harper-Collins.
Mr. Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 1990, where he was editor in chief of The Vassar Spectator.