Jake Tapper

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Jake Tapper, 2017

Jacob Paul "Jake" Tapper (born March 12, 1969 in New York City ) is an American journalist and television presenter . He hosts The Lead with Jake Tapper and State of the Union with Jake Tapper on CNN .

Career

Tapper graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 . He then worked in the press staff of Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and, after her election defeat in 1994, initially switched to an advertising company. He then worked for a short time for a non-profit organization that is committed to better gun control .

From the late 1990s he worked as a freelance journalist and wrote for the New York Times , the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times , among others , before he became editor of the city ​​magazine Washington City Paper . From there he moved to Salon.com and then - in 2003 - to ABC News . There he took over from 2008 the post of chief correspondent of the station in the White House .

In January 2013, Tapper moved to CNN , where he has been moderating The Lead with Jake Tapper on a daily basis since March 2013 . Since 2015 he has also hosted the Sunday talk show State of the Union with Jake Tapper .

Tapper is married and has two children.

Awards and honors

For his work there he has received the Merriman Smith Memorial Award three times . He also received an Emmy for reporting on Barack Obama's inauguration . He received another Merriam Smith Memorial Award in 2018 together with CNN journalists Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto and Carl Bernstein for a report on the Steele dossier .

Works

  • Body Slam, the Jesse Ventura Story . St. Martin's, New York 1999.
  • Outpost, an Untold Story of American Valor . Little, Brown & Co, New York 2012.
  • Hellfire club . Little, Brown & Co, New York 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jake Tapper. In: cnn.com. CNN , accessed January 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Janell Ross: What you need to know about GOP debate moderator Jake Tapper. In: washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post , September 16, 2015, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 2010 WHCA Journalism Awards. (No longer available online.) In: whca.net. White House Correspondents' Association , archived from the original on May 3, 2010 ; accessed on January 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 2011 WHCA Journalism Awards. (No longer available online.) In: whca.net. White House Correspondents' Association , archived from the original on May 10, 2012 ; accessed on January 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 2012 WHCA Journalism Awards. (No longer available online.) In: whca.net. White House Correspondents' Association , archived from the original on June 29, 2017 ; accessed on January 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Maggie Haberman, Josh Dawsey, Jake Tapper, and More Honored With WHCA Awards. Accessed August 7, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Tapper, Jake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tapper, Jacob Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City