Biography of karen tumulty

American journalist

Karen Emily Tumulty (born December 1, 1955) is a political columnist for The Washington Post.^[2] Tumulty wrote for Time from October 1994 to April 2010 as a Congressional Correspondent, she was the National Political Correspondent based in Washington D.C.

for the magazine.^[3]

Career

Tumulty began her career in 1977 at the now-defunct San Antonio Light.

Biography of karen tumulty

Tumulty spent 14 years with the Los Angeles Times, covering the US Congress, economics, business, energy, and general-assignment beats. While at the Times, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism in 1982 for Large Newspapers,^[4] and the National Press Foundation's Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993.^[5]

Tumulty joined Time in 1994.

She covered Congress for two years, during which time she reported and wrote the magazine's 1995 "Man of the Year" profile of Newt Gingrich.^[5