Jonathan Karl

Jonathan Karl was named ABC News' senior congressional correspondent in November 2008. In this role, he is responsible for covering Capitol Hill for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms including "World News," "Nightline," "Good Morning America" and ABCNews.com.

Jonathan Karl was named ABC News' senior congressional correspondent in November 2008.

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Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network's senior foreign affairs correspondent covering the State Department. In December 2005, he was named senior national security correspondent. He has traveled the world for ABC News, reporting from more than two dozen countries on five continents. He reported more extensively on the situation in Darfur, Sudan than any other network correspondent, visiting Sudan three times in 2005.

Karl has traveled internationally with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Karl has also broken several stories on Iran's nuclear program and covered the 2004 presidential elections in Russia.    

In 2004, Karl spent several months covering the Bush-Cheney campaign. He co-anchored election night coverage on ABC News NOW, anchoring for more than 14 straight hours.   

Karl previously served as a congressional correspondent for CNN, where he worked for eight years covering Capitol Hill, the White House and the Pentagon. While there, he reported on two presidential elections, President Clinton's impeachment, the NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, and congressional reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In 2001, Karl won The National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for congressional reporting.

During his time on Capitol Hill, Karl was the first to report on two of the most significant congressional stories in recent years: Sen. Jim Jefford's decision to leave the Republican party and Sen. Trent Lott's decision to step down as Senate majority leader. In 1998, Karl was the first reporter to obtain the Starr Report, one of the most sought after political documents in recent years.

Prior to joining CNN, Karl worked as an investigative reporter for The New York Post. At the Post, he covered New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's City Hall and the 1994 Cuomo-Pataki gubernatorial race. 

Karl has also worked as a researcher and reporter for The New Republic, where he covered a variety of issues ranging from international affairs to American politics and education.

A prolific writer, Karl has published in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, Christian Science Monitor and The San Francisco Chronicle.

In December 1995, Karl's non-fiction book, "The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias," was published by HarperCollins.

Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1990, where he was editor in chief of "The Vassar Spectator."