Dan Balz
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Daniel J. Balz is a journalist at The Washington Post
The Washington Post
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, where he has been a political correspondent since 1978. Balz has served as National Editor, Political Editor, White House correspondent and as the Washington Post’s Texas
Texas
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-based Southwest correspondent. Balz sometimes appears on the news show Meet the Press
Meet the Press
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 and frequently appears on the PBS program Washington Week
Washington Week
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. In April 2011 the White House Correspondents' Association honored Balz with the prestigious Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage under deadline pressure.

Balz is co-author, with Ronald Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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, of the 1996 book Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival. In 1999, Balz received the American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association
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 award for political coverage.

Balz's latest work, co-written with Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
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 winner Haynes Johnson
Haynes Johnson
Haynes Bonner Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author, and TV analyst. He has reported on most of the major news stories of the last half-century and is widely regarded as one of the nation's top political commentators.He began his newspaper career in 1956 as a reporter...

 in 2009, is The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election" about the 2008 campaign, is based on two years of reporting, and includes exclusive interviews with President Obama, Senator John McCain and many of the top advisers to the major candidates in the 2008 election.

Before coming to the Washington Post, he worked as a reporter and deputy editor for National Journal
National Journal
National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...

 and as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dan was born in Freeport, Illinois
Freeport, Illinois
Freeport is a city in and the county seat of Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 26,443 at the 2000 census. The mayor of Freeport is George W...

, is a 1964 graduate of Freeport High School, followed by a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in communications from the University of Illinois. Dan served in the U.S Army from 1968–1971. He is married to Nancy Johnson Balz and they have one son.
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