Anne E. Kornblut
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Anne Elise Kornblut (born February 25, 1973) is an American journalist. She is currently a staff writer for the Washington Post.

Biography

Kornblut was raised in McLean, Virginia, the daughter of Jane Kornblut and the late Arthur T. Kornblut, a lawyer with a practice in Washington, D.C. She was a National Merit Program semifinalist in 1989. She graduated from Holton-Arms School private school in Bethesda Maryland in 1990. She is a 1994 graduate of Columbia University.

Career

Kornblut formerly worked at the New York Daily News, at which she served as an intern, and at the Boston Globe, for which she also covered national politics. A veteran of the 2000 and 2004 presidential races, her political reportage has included stories on the reelection campaign of George W. Bush and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Kornblut joined the New York Times in 2005. One of her assignments was to cover the political career and reelection campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton; she thereafter became one of the paper's national political correspondents.

In early 2007, Kornblut was hired by the Washington Post. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Allegation by Hillary Clinton Campaign

On 11 August 2008, The Atlantic Monthly magazine revealed a letter by The Washington Post's managing editor, dated 11 February 2008, addressed to the Hillary Clinton campaign manager, in which he had protested the assertion made by an addressee's spokesman that Kornblut was fired by The New York Times because of her reporting. The editor rejected the allegation, and defended her reporting as "tough, accurate and fair". ¹

Awards

In 2002, she won the White House Correspondents' Association Aldo Beckman Award for her coverage of President George W. Bush’s first year in office.

Criticism

Kornblut has been criticized by a number of influential members of the leftwing blogosphere for "being a mouthpiece" for the Republican talking points.²

Personal life

Kornblut married English-born BBC News producer Mark Orchard at the Ashby Inn in Paris, Virginia, in a service conducted by an Episcopal priest on September 2, 2001.³ They honeymooned in Baja California.⁴ The pair later divorced.

References

External links

• www.AnneKornblut.com- Official Website
• Anne Kornblut at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Observer article on Kornblut