Anne Kornblut
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Anne Elise Kornblut is an American journalist. She is currently a staff writer for the Washington Post.

Early life

Kornblut was raised in McLean, Virginia
McLean, Virginia
McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

, the daughter of Jane Kornblut and the late Arthur T. Kornblut, a lawyer with a practice in Washington, D.C. Her sister Emily is a human rights educator. She was a National Merit Program semifinalist in 1989. She graduated from Holton-Arms School
Holton-Arms School
Holton-Arms is an independent college-preparatory school for girls in grades 3–12, located in Bethesda, Maryland. The School's mission is to cultivate the unique potential of young women through the “education not only of the mind, but of the soul and spirit.” Holton-Arms is an independent...

 private school in Bethesda Maryland in 1990. She is a 1994 graduate of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

.

Career

Kornblut formerly worked at the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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, 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
George W. Bush
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 and the Jack Abramoff
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 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
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.

Kornblut has authored a book, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win. It was published by Random House
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 in December 2009.

Awards

In 2002, she won the White House Correspondents' Association
White House Correspondents' Association
The White House Correspondents' Association is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the President of the United States. The WHCA was founded in 1914 by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor that a Congressional committee would select which journalists could attend...

 Aldo Beckman Award for her coverage of President George W. Bush’s first year in office.

Criticism

Kornblut has been criticized by Salon.com
Salon.com
Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

columnist Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator before becoming a contributor to Salon.com, where he focuses on political and legal topics...

 for thoughtlessly repeating Republican Party
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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 sloganeering as fact in her reporting. He has also disparaged her for abusing anonymity when sourcing statements made by Obama administration officials. Media critic Bob Somerby has frequently faulted her for similar reasons at The Daily Howler
The Daily Howler
The Daily Howler is an American political blog written by Bob Somerby. It was perhaps the first major political blog, started in 1998. The style is by turns earnest and sarcastic. Somerby criticizes what he considers the media's frequently biased or lazy coverage...

.

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".

Personal life

Kornblut married Jon Cohen, Director of Polling for the Washington Post, at the Tra Vigne restaurant in St. Helena, California on July 24, 2010. Guests included her Maid of Honor Campbell Brown, Reader Jessica Yellin, Dan Senor, Laura and Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Sarah Feinberg, Todd Harris, and Leibo and Russ Schriefer. They honeymooned in Southeast Asia before returning to cover the 2010 elections. Kornblut was previously married to English
England
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-born BBC News
BBC News
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producer Mark Orchard.

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