Jake Tapper

Jake Tapper

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayMar 12, 1969
BiographyJacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist. He is the lead Washington anchor for CNN, hosts the weekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper, and co-hosts the Sunday morning public affairs program State of the Union.

Tapper has written six books, with two new non-fiction books scheduled to be published in 2025. One book is on the 2024 election, titled "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" with co-author Alex Thompson of Axios. The other book is on a terrorism investigation and prosecution.

At CNN, Tapper, "perhaps the network’s most respected anchor," according to The Wrap, has won numerous journalism awards. This includes the Emmy Awards in 2024 for Outstanding Live News Special for "A CNN Town Hall: Toxic Train Disaster, Ohio Residents Speak Out," which he hosted, and for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for being part of the team that covered the Israel-Hamas War. He won the Emmy Awards in 2023 for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage as part of the team that covered the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and for Outstanding Live News Special for being one of the co-anchors of "Live from the Capitol: January 6, One Year Later."

On June 27, 2024, Tapper co-moderated a debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump that was seen by more than 51 million viewers and was arguably the most consequential debate in American presidential history, given Biden's poor performance.

Before joining CNN, Tapper worked for ABC News as Senior White House Correspondent, where he received three Merriman Smith Memorial Awards from the White House Correspondents' Association. Tapper helped with the coverage of the inauguration of President Obama that earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story. Tapper was part of a team that was awarded an Edward R. Murrow Award for Video: Breaking News for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1". His book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor debuted at number 10 in November 2012 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction. Tapper's book and his reporting on the veterans and troops were cited when the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded him the "Tex" McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism.

The Republican primary debate which Tapper moderated in September 2015, drew more than 23 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in the history of CNN and the second-most watched primary debate ever. He also moderated the Republican presidential debate in Miami on March 10, 2016, which drew almost 12 million viewers, and according to Variety, "garnered acclaim for its substance".

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