Mark Halperin

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Mark Evan Halperin (born January 11, 1965) is an American journalist, most recently known for his position as senior political analyst for MSNBC and as a contributor, and former co-managing editor with John Heilemann of Bloomberg Politics.

He previously worked as the political director at ABC News, where he worked as the editor of the Washington, D.C., newsletter The Note. He is the co-author with Heilemann of Game Change and Double Down: Game Change 2012.

Halperin and Heilemann were co-hosts of MSNBC and Bloomberg's With All Due Respect, a political analysis show.

Halperin produced and co-starred with Heilemann and Mark McKinnon in Showtime's The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, following the presidential candidates behind the scenes of their campaigns in the 2016 United States Presidential Election. In response to multiple allegations of workplace sexual harassment and misconduct at his prior job at ABC News, Halperin was fired by both Showtime Networks and NBC News at the end of October 2017.

Early life and education

Halperin was born to a Jewish family, the son of Morton Halperin, a foreign policy expert, and Ina Weinstein Halperin Young. He was born in New York City but raised in Bethesda, Maryland.

In 1982, before he began his senior year at Walt Whitman High School, he lived with a family in Japan as part of the Youth for Understanding program. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1987.

Personal life

Halperin resides in New York City with his girlfriend, Karen Avrich, co-author of Sasha and Emma.

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Career

Halperin began his work as a desk assistant for ABC News and a World News Tonight analyst in 1988. He began as a Washington general assignment reporter, and then served in the investigative unit of World News Tonight and as a general assignment reporter.

He worked full-time as an off-air producer with Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992. Halperin joined ABC's special events unit in New York in 1994 and later became an editorial producer.

He was named the ABC News' political director in 1997. Halperin, a producer, has worked as a reporter and political analyst for ABC News television and radio shows. He founded and edited The Note, a newspaper that appeared on ABCNews.com every day.

Halperin and John F. Harris' book, The Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove, and How to Take the White House in 2008 appeared in October 2006.

Halperin, a board member of Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, began in 2006. Since being established in 2008, he has been on their public advisory board.

Halperin joined ABC News in March 2007 and was named as the ABC News' political director by David Chalian. Halperin was hired as a political analyst and editor at large for Time magazine in May 2007. He was hired as a senior political analyst at MSNBC in June 2010. Time introduced "Mark Halperin 2012" on iPad, which includes clips from Halperin's "The Page" as well as video, photos, breaking news, and Halperin's take on the news.

The 2010 Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain, and Palin, by Halperin and co-author John Heilemann, and the Race of a Lifetime. The book was then turned into the HBO film Game Change, which premiered on March 10, 2012. Halperin appeared in the film as a reporter for the first time. Halperin and Heilemann published Double Down: Game Change 2012, which was a book about that election.

Halperin was barred from his MSNBC show "slurring" President Barack Obama, according to Morning Joe, who said Obama came off as "kind of a jerk" during the previous day's press conference. A month later, his suspension was lifted.

Halperin was ranked number one on Salon's 2011 Hack List in December 2011, describing him as "shallow and predictable" as well as "both fixated solely on the horse race and also very bad at analyzing the horse race.

Halperin's assessment in the 2016 United States presidential campaign was "soulless" and "amoral," according to Dana Milbank, who cited several instances where Halperin lauded Republican nominee Donald Trump. Halperin had tweeted on Morning Joe in March 2016 that Trump was "one of the two most skilled presidential candidates any of us have covered," Milbank said. Milbank said on his Bloomberg TV show "With All Due Respect," Halperin said that "not racial" for Trump to try to disqualify an Indiana-born federal judge as a "Mexican" because of his ancestry. "Mexico isn't a race," he says.

Alex Shephard, a writer for The New Republic, sluggishly focused" on the horse race and for superficial analysis, saying "he's been meaning to carry Donald Trump's bags for years."

On the other hand, Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker wrote that Halperin's The Circus is "both an argument for horse-race journalism and a way to see its inner workings, and in the case of following Heilemann and Halperin in their long traipse around the American interior, the media is seeing the media uncovering its own inefficiencies, just as Trump exploited them."

Halperin had "gone out of his way" to give Trump favorable coverage in November, according to Brian Williams. "When Donald Trump complains that he is not getting positive coverage in the MSM," Williams says of Halperin's performance, "he has not been listening to you this cycle." "I think you've gone out of your way to find the path, argue for the course, forge the way for him in an argumentative manner with your cohost to the nomination."

Five women had accused Halperin of sexual assault, according to CNN on October 26, 2017. After visiting Halperin in the early 2000s, one woman told the network she was assaulted. The woman said, "I went up to have a soda and talk, but he just kissed me and grabbed my boobs." "I just froze." I didn't know what to do."

Halperin once pressed his penis on her shoulder during the 2004 election cycle, according to a woman who spoke to CNN. "I was obviously shocked," she said. "I was so young and new, I wasn't sure if it was something that was expected of you if you wanted something from a male figure in news."

According to CNN, a new ABC News employee had been out on the road with Halperin while he defended her. "I excused myself to go to the bathroom while standing outside when I opened the door, he suggested [me] to go into the other bathroom to do something," she said. "It freaked me out." I stepped out of the ladies' room and discovered that he was just standing there. Likely blocking the door."

Three other women described Halperin "without permission" and "assassination of their bodies when he was clothed," CNN reported.

Halperin apologised for seeking "relationships with women that I worked with, some of whom were junior to me," but refused to press his genitals against a woman or grabbing another woman's breast. He said he would temporarily suspend his regular duties to "properly deal with this situation."

Halperin will not return as a senior political analyst "until the questions surrounding his past conduct are fully understood," NBC News reported later that day. HBO has confirmed that it will not continue with a planned miniseries about the presidential election based in part on Halperin's then-upcoming book on the 2016 election. "HBO has no tolerance for sexual assault within the company or its products," the premium cable channel said in a tweet. Penguin Press also cancelled the previous game Change series Halperin, which HBO had already cancelled plans to adapt.

CNN ran a second story on the day after their first one, claiming that the number of women accusing Halperin of assault had increased to "at least a dozen." Halperin denied several of the latest charges, including ones that he masturbated in front of someone or physically assaulted someone, in a long statement released in reaction to the CNN investigation. He apologized to the women "mistreated" while admitting to a problem near the end of his ABC tenure, weekly counseling sessions, and finally halted the behavior; however, a later report by The Daily Beast featured a case of bullying from 2011.

Halperin's deal with the networks was ended on October 30, 2017, both NBC and MSNBC. Halperin on The Circus was replaced by Showtime anchor Alex Wagner on January 3, 2018.

Halperin spent time in the first quarter of 2019 with the intention of appearing on television and radio as a pundit. Halperin retained Michael Smerconish, Mika Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough to assist with an under-the-radar yet calculated professional recovery program, according to the story. Halperin has been posting on Twitter since the start of 2019 and has launched "Mark Halperin's Wide World of News" in mid-April. Halperin appeared on Sirius XM with Smerconish, where he said he had been working with the Fortune Society, a New York City-based non-profit group that provides vital assistance to the formerly imprisoned.

Halperin had signed a new book contract with publisher Regan Arts on August 18, 2019. In early-November 2019, the book, titled How to Beat Trump: America's Top Political Strategists on What It Will Take, was released. David Axelrod, Donna Brazile, and James Carville are among the book's contributors. Both CNN and NBC refused to do anything to advertise the book."

Following reports of the forthcoming book, there was widespread displeasure and outrage, with Gretchen Carlson calling the arrangement "a slap in the face to all women." On Twitter, Rebecca Katz, a political strategist, said, "You can beat Trump without funding Mark Halperin's career development." Halperin was branded "a predator" by CNN political commentator Karen Finney, who also slammed Regan Arts, a book publisher.

Halperin allegedly exchanged vague threats on a phone call with MSNBC president Phil Griffin after being refused a potential collaboration with the Morning Joe team earlier this year, according to a September 9, 2019 article in The Daily Beast.

Halperin debuted on Newsmax TV in 2020 as a contributor and host of their weekly Sunday show, Focus Group's Focus Group, and is the host of Mark Halperin's Focus Group.

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