Jonathan Karl is ABC News chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor
of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

The former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association,
Karl served as ABC’s chief White House correspondent from 2012 to
2021. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers on the Trump
White House, “Front Row at the Trump Show” and “Betrayal: The
Final Act of the Trump Show.”

Karl has broad experience covering U.S. politics, foreign policy and
the military and has reported from more than 30 countries. His
reporting drives news cycles and has been recognized with some of the
most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Walter Cronkite
Award for National Individual Achievement and the National Press
Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for
Congressional reporting. He is also one of the few journalists to win
twice both the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Association Joan
Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based
Congressional or political reporting (2010 and 2015) and the White
House Correspondents’ Association Award for Presidential Coverage
Under Deadline Pressure (2021 and 2022). He also won an Emmy® Award
for coverage of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Karl has covered every major beat in Washington, including the White
House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department. He’s
reported from the White House under four presidents and more than a
dozen press secretaries. Karl has covered seven presidential
elections. During the 2016 cycle, he did the first network interview
with former President Donald Trump, the first interview with Senator
Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate and a rare, exclusive
interview with the reclusive billionaire Charles Koch.

Prior to his current post, Karl served as ABC’s senior political
correspondent, covering national political news, including
presidential politics and Congress.

Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network’s senior foreign
affairs correspondent covering the State Department. He traveled
around the world with former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and
Condoleezza Rice. In December 2005, Karl was named senior national
security correspondent. He reported extensively on the situation in
Darfur, Sudan, visiting the war-torn country three times in 2005, and
earning an Emmy nomination for his reporting.

In addition to his many interviews with leading political figures,
Karl has interviewed singer Elton John, Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera,
singer and actress Barbra Streisand, Pete Townshend of The Who, actor
George Clooney, baseball legend Ernie Banks, Yoko Ono, the Dalai Lama,
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, singer/songwriter James Taylor
and other leading figures in sports and popular culture.

Before joining ABC News, Karl spent eight years as a political and
congressional correspondent for CNN. Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa
from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
