Molly Ball

Molly Ball is an American political journalist and writer. She is the national political correspondent for Time magazine. She is the author of a 2020 biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Ball in 2017

Career

Ball has covered U.S. politics for The Atlantic, where she won the 2012 Toner Prize for Excellence in Public Reporting for her coverage of the 2012 United States elections, including the 2012 United States presidential election and the 2012 gay marriage referenda.[1] She has been a reporter for Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun. She joined Time as National Political Correspondent in 2017.[2]

Recognition

In 2019, she received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.[3] Her other awards include the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis, the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.[4]

Personal life

Ball was raised in Colorado and Idaho.[4] She graduated from Yale University in 2001.[5][6] She is married and has three children.[4]

In 2007, she won $100,000 on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.[5]

gollark: No.
gollark: Not VERY techy, but I guess more so than, say, developing countries.
gollark: And yet you have computers.
gollark: Except the 23rd century. Take it from me, you do NOT want to be in that.
gollark: You know what they say, 20th century bad.

References
  1. Loughlin, Wendy S. (March 28, 2013). "The Atlantic's Molly Ball is the winner of the Newhouse School's 2012 Toner Prize". Newhouse School. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  2. Time Staff (October 10, 2017). "Molly Ball Joins TIME as National Political Correspondent". Time. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  3. "Reporting Prizes: Reporting on the Presidency 2019". Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. June 4, 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  4. "Molly Ball". Pulitzer Center. Archived from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  5. "Molly Ball (profile of)". Washington Week. PBS. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  6. "For YaleWomen, boundless ambition, local action". YaleNews. July 11, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.