Jake Tapper
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Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist.
He is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN, and hosts the weekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper and the Sunday morning affairs program State of the Union. Prior to joining CNN, Tapper worked for ABC News.
The White House Correspondents' Association honored his work as Senior White House Correspondent with ABC News with three Merriman Smith Memorial Awards for broadcast journalism.Tapper contributed to the coverage of the inauguration of President Obama that earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story.
Tapper was part of a team that was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Video: Breaking News for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1". His book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor debuted at number 10 in November 2012 on The New York Times Bestseller list for hardback non-fiction.
Tapper's book and his reporting on the veterans and troops were cited when the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded him the "Tex" McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism.The Republican primary debate Tapper moderated in September 2015 drew more than 23 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in the history of CNN and the second-most watched primary debate ever.
He also moderated the Republican presidential debate in Miami on March 10, 2016, which drew almost 12 million viewers and, according to Variety, "garnered acclaim for its substance".
Early life
Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Queen Village, Philadelphia. He is the son of Theodore S. "Ted" and Helen Anne (née Palmatier) Tapper. His mother, who is originally from Canada, retired as a psychiatric nurse at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His father, from Chicago, graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, and went on to serve as the president of South Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College. His parents are Jewish; his mother, who was raised Presbyterian, converted to Judaism. When Tapper was a kid he spent summers attending the Jewish summer camp Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
Tapper attended the Philadelphia School, a progressive, independent elementary school known for its weekly out of classroom excursions to farms, etc. In eighth grade he did a comic strip for a local free weekly paper. He later enrolled at Akiba Hebrew Academy, an independent Jewish day school formerly located in Merion, Pennsylvania, and attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a B.A. in History, modified by Visual Studies, in 1991. At Dartmouth, Tapper was a member of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity. He briefly attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Personal life
Tapper went on a date with Monica Lewinsky in December 1997, a few weeks before news broke of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. He wrote about the experience in a January 1998 issue of the Washington City Paper and the two later discussed the date on an Oct. 5, 2021 episode of his CNN program, "The Lead with Jake Tapper."
In 2006, Tapper married Jennifer Marie Brown, a former Planned Parenthood official, in her home state of Missouri. They reside in Washington, D.C. with their two children Alice and Jack. Alice, at ages 9 through 11, created a Girl Scout Raise Your Hand patch, wrote a related New York Times op-ed and a picture book, Raise Your Hand, to encourage girls to be more confident in school, which she mentioned on the Ellen Degeneres Show.
Tapper is a lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Philadelphia 76ers. Following Super Bowl LII, where the Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41–33, Tapper, who had attended the game in person, called in to New Day with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman as a “mystery guest” to gloat about the Eagles’ victory to Berman (a Massachusetts native and lifelong Patriots fan). Berman congratulated Tapper on the Eagles’ victory.
Career
Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democratic Senator Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) in 1992 and then served as her congressional press secretary. Tapper has served for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public relations company operated by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate. He served as a spokesperson for Hooters, a restaurant chain that employs scantly clad women as servers. Tapper also worked for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.
Tapper wrote numerous articles as a freelance writer and then started his full-time journalism career in 1998; for two years, he was a Senior Writer for the Washington City Paper. Tapper wrote an article about going on a date with Monica Lewinsky, which skew Washington's politics of scandal. Tapper received a Society of Professional Journalists award for his Washington City Paper work.
Tapper was the Washington Correspondent for Salon.com from 1999 to 2002. Tapper's coverage of Enron were nominated for a 2002 Columbia University School of Journalism online award, and he was among the Bush administration's early critics of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
Tapper, the host of CNN news talk show Take Five in 2001, was the host of the CNN news talk show Take Five. Tapper has worked for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers. Tapper was a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and his book was included in "The Best American Political Writing 2002." In 2002, Tapper was the reporter for a string of VH1 news specials.
Tapper was recruited by ABC News in 2003. Tapper covered a variety of areas, including work in the ABC News Baghdad bureau and Afghanistan, following Hurricane Katrina's demise of the levees. Tapper, from March to July 2010, was the interim anchor of ABC's This Week, hosting the show until Christiane Amanpour became This Week's anchor.
On November 5, 2008, the day after the 2008 presidential election, Tapper was named Senior White House Correspondent. The White House Correspondents' Association also honoured him in 2010 and 2012 for his presidential coverage under deadline pressure. He was a primary correspondent on ABC News' coverage of President Obama's inauguration, earning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story.
After being the anchor of World News, Tapper was nominated to replace George Stephanopoulos, who joined politics as a Democratic campaign manager, as the successor to Tapper. Stephanopoulos' replacement was instead chosen by CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Before Amanpour took over the show on August 1, 2010, Tapper served as the interim anchor until Amanpour took over. When Stephanopoulous decided he wanted to return to his position, he was passed over again.
Tapper appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News with Diane Sawyer. Tapper, a regular substitute host of This Week and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, retired General Colin Powell, and former US Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, were among the first television interviews with CIA chief Leon Panetta, as well as former FBI Chairman John Boehner, R-Maryland, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Tapper, a senior White House correspondent, interviewed President Obama several times. Tapper, ABC News' national/senior political reporter based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau before his White House service. He contributed to a World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, the 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award for best network newscast. He was lauded for both breaking news and even-handedness as ABC News' lead reporter covering the 2008 presidential election. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney all traveled from Iowa to South Carolina and beyond.
Tapper will join CNN and anchor a new weekday show and serve as the network's chief Washington reporter on December 20, 2012. In January 2013, he started with CNN, The Lead with Jake Tapper, as a host of his own show.
In 2013, Lead with Jake Tapper received three National Headliner Awards for its reporting. The Lead with Jake Tapper earned first prize for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and second prize for its coverage of the Oklahoma tornadoes in the category of "Coverage of a major news event" on television broadcast television networks, cable networks, and syndicators. In the category of "continuing coverage of a major news event," it received its third award for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. The Lead was honoured in 2014 for a series of studies on academic misconduct at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by reporter Sara Ganim of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.
Tapper assumed host of CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper in June 2015. He has become known for criticizing politicians of all stripes, including pushing Senator Bernie Sanders to reveal his tax returns; and questioning whether Trump would invite Benghazi if his brother George W. Bush bears no responsibility for the 9/11 attacks; and asking Donald Trump whether he will protest support from white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan, and David Duke in his March 2016 address condemning Trump.
Tapper moderated two Republican primary debates from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on September 16, 2015. According to CNN's most watched show and the second most watched primary debate ever, the main debate attracted an average of 23.1 million viewers, making it the most watched program in the history of CNN and the second most watched primary debate ever. He also moderated the Republican presidential debate in Miami on March 10, 2016, which attracted nearly 12 million viewers and was dubbed "garnered acclaim for its substance," according to Variety.
He was named by the University of California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism for Excellence in Television Political Journalism in 2017. The Radio Television Digital News Association awarded John F. Hogan the Distinguished Service Award in 2017.
Tapper was part of a four-person team at CNN in 2018 that included Carl Bernstein, Jim Sciutto, and Evan Perez, who received the Merriman Smith Award for broadcast reporting on the White House under deadline pressure."
"Comparing Palestinian human rights campaigners to violent white nationalists, including Tapper," she said, "fundamentally a lie." "Those who believe Palestinian leaders bear responsibility for the inciting of terrorism cannot then let US politicians off the hook and act as if words don't matter," Tapper said in response.
Tapper drew notice for his response during the contentious first presidential election debate in 2020. "It's hot mess inside a train wreck inside a dumpster fire." Later this year, he was chastised for behaving unethically by secretly advising a Pennsylvania politician.
Tapper's presence in January 2021, well before Joe Biden's Inauguration, will grow to be the network's "lead anchor for all major Washington events," including election nights. Dana Bash will join Tapper as a co-host on State of the Union, as a host on State of the Union, in addition to changing hosting weeks.
During an interview in Kyiv with Rabbi Raphael Rutman, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's envoy, Tapper donned a Teffilin given to him by the rabbi in April 2022.
Tapper has contributed to GQ, The Weekly Standard, NPR's All Things Considered, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He hosted Take Five on CNN in 2001, in which young journalists and commentators discussed politics and pop culture. He hosted a series of entertainment news specials on VH1, in 2002, and in 2003, he hosted a Sundance Channel specials focusing on independent film. Tapper has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conan, The View, Real Time with Bill Maher, and as guest bailiff on the Judge John Hodgman podcast on August 31, 2011 as guest bailiff Jesse Thorn.
Little, Brown and Company published Tapper's first book, a political thriller called The Hellfire Club, on April 24, 2018. In 1950s Washington, a fictional freshman congressman uncovering dishonesty and plot during the McCarthy period, the book follows a fictional freshman congressman's discovery of graft and sex in the midst of the McCarthy period. The book debuted on the New York Times Best-Seller List for Hardcover fiction and remained on the Best-Seller list for four weeks. The Hellfire Club was "insightful," according to the Associated Press, "well-written and worthwhile." The novel was described as "startlingly good" by Tablet Magazine. "Issues" and "proves he has the page-turning talent in his amusing debut book," the author says. In May 2021, the sequel to The Hellfire Club, The Devil May Dance, will be published, and it continues the tale of Charlie and Margaret Marder's lives.
Tapper is also the author of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, a critically acclaimed book about US troops in Afghanistan that debuted at number 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction. "Brilliant, dedicated reporting by a journalist who goes to the ground to find the truth," Bob Woodward wrote of the book. A sad, true tale about this war, America, and the vain warriors who live—and die—at the point of the spear, according to Jon Krakauer, "a mind-boggling, all-true tale of heroism, hubris, miscalculation, and heartbreaking sacrifice." If you want to know how the Afghan civil war went off the tracks, you should read this book." Tapper was recognized with the Tex McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2014 for his book and his coverage of military topics in general. In July 2020, a Rod Lurie-directed film adaptation of The Outpost starring Milo Gibson, Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, and Caleb Landry Jones was released.
Tapper is the author of Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, a churning elixtion well worth reading" and The Daily Telegraph is "engrossing" in addition to The Outpost. He also wrote Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Novel (St. Martin's Press), which was excerpted from The Washington Post Journal.
Capitol Hell was a comic strip in Roll Call from 1994 to 2003. He has also contributed cartoons to the Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Dilbert cartoon was illustrated by Tapper during the week of May 23, 2016. The original drawings were auctioned online to raise funds for the Troops Foundation of the Philippines.