:Jake Tapper

Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Queen Village, Philadelphia,{{cite web |last=Timpane |first=John |date=April 7, 2013 |title=Jake Tapper, Philadelphia boy to CNN 'Lead' |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/television/20130407_Jake_Tapper__Philadelphia_boy_to_CNN__Lead_.html |access-date=March 12, 2019 |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411073032/http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/television/20130407_Jake_Tapper__Philadelphia_boy_to_CNN__Lead_.html |url-status=live }} the son of Theodore Samuel "Ted" and Helen Anne (née Palmatier) Tapper. His mother, who is originally from Canada,{{Cite tweet |number=829419336402141208 |user=jaketapper |title=My mother is an immigrant. From Canada. #TapperDirtFile |first=Jake |last=Tapper |date=Feb 8, 2017 |access-date=April 19, 2017}} retired as a psychiatric nurse at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His father, from Chicago, graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School{{cite web |title=Dr. Theodore Tapper, MD – Merion, PA – Pediatrics |url=https://www.doximity.com/pub/theodore-tapper-md |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327120647/https://www.doximity.com/pub/theodore-tapper-md |archive-date=March 27, 2020 |access-date=October 5, 2016 |website=Doximity}} and went on to serve as the president of South Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College.{{cite web |date=March 13, 1967 |title=Weddings: Helen A. Palmatier Bride of a Physician |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/13/archives/helen-a-palmatier-bride-of-a-physician.html |access-date=April 19, 2017 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108222525/https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/13/archives/helen-a-palmatier-bride-of-a-physician.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=September 3, 2006 |title=Jennifer Brown, Jacob Tapper |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/fashion/weddings/03brown.html |access-date=May 5, 2010 |archive-date=December 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225070657/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/fashion/weddings/03brown.html |url-status=live }}[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimesnews/obituary.aspx?pid=140088133 Burlington Times-News: Helen McDowell Palmatier] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103215505/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimesnews/obituary.aspx?pid=140088133 |date=November 3, 2016 }} February 28, 2010 His parents are Jewish; his mother, who was raised Presbyterian, converted to Judaism.{{cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=August 9, 2000 |title=Too Jewish? |url=http://www.salon.com/2000/08/09/lieberman_38/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030224133/https://www.salon.com/2000/08/09/lieberman_38/ |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=April 19, 2017 |website=Salon.com}} He was named{{Cite news |last=Timpane |first=John |date=April 7, 2013 |title=Jake Tapper, Philadelphia boy to CNN 'Lead' |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/television/20130407_Jake_Tapper__Philadelphia_boy_to_CNN__Lead_.html |access-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426202818/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/television/20130407_Jake_Tapper__Philadelphia_boy_to_CNN__Lead_.html |url-status=live }} for Jacob Scher. When Tapper was young, he spent summers attending Camp Ramah in the Poconos, a Jewish summer camp.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/260542202780999680|title=Jake Tapper on Twitter}}

Tapper attended the Philadelphia School, a progressive, independent elementary school known for its weekly out of classroom excursions to farms, etc. In eighth grade he did a comic strip for a local free weekly paper.{{cite journal |last=McGrath |first=Tom |date=May 2017 |title=We Want Answers: Jake Tapper |journal=Philadelphia Magazine |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/04/22/jake-tapper-donald-trump/ |access-date=3 July 2020 |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703232744/https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/04/22/jake-tapper-donald-trump/ |url-status=live }} He later enrolled at Akiba Hebrew Academy, an independent Jewish day school formerly located in Merion, Pennsylvania, and attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a B.A. in history, modified by Visual Studies, in 1991.{{Cite web |title=CNN Programs – Anchors/Reporters – Jake Tapper |url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/tapper.jake.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401230522/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/tapper.jake.html |archive-date=April 1, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2013 |website=CNN}} At Dartmouth, Tapper was a member of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity. He briefly attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts.{{cite news |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |date=March 2, 2009 |title=Covering Obama, Pushy Jake Tapper Presses His Points |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101987_pf.html |access-date=September 10, 2009 |archive-date=November 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108192349/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101987_pf.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Alexandra |date=June 9, 2017 |title=Commencement speaker Jake Tapper '91 reflects on Dartmouth |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/06/commencement-speaker-jake-tapper-91-reflects-on-dartmouth |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105070427/http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2017/06/commencement-speaker-jake-tapper-91-reflects-on-dartmouth |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |access-date=January 4, 2018 |work=The Dartmouth}}

In 1992, Tapper served as a campaign press secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) and later served as her congressional press secretary. Tapper also worked for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate.{{cite news |last=Rodricks |first=Dan |date=November 15, 1995 |title=EEOC fights for hunks to join Hooters attractions |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/11/15/eeoc-fights-for-hunks-to-join-hooters-attractions/ |access-date=January 17, 2024 |archive-date=January 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117130427/https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/11/15/eeoc-fights-for-hunks-to-join-hooters-attractions/ |url-status=live }} Tapper served as a spokesman for Hooters and worked for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Janell |date=September 16, 2015 |title=What you need to know about GOP debate moderator Jake Tapper |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/16/what-you-need-to-know-about-gop-debate-moderator-jake-tapper/ |access-date=April 19, 2017 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127094324/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/16/what-you-need-to-know-about-gop-debate-moderator-jake-tapper/ |url-status=live }}

Tapper wrote several articles as a freelance writer and then began his full-time journalism career in 1998; for two years, he was a senior writer for the Washington City Paper. While there, Tapper wrote an article about going on a date with Monica Lewinsky,{{cite news |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=January 30, 1998 |title=I Dated Monica Lewinsky |url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/14334/i-dated-monica-lewinsky |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211015947/http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/14334/i-dated-monica-lewinsky |archive-date=December 11, 2015 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |newspaper=Washington City Paper}} which skewered Washington's culture of scandal. Tapper won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his work at the Washington City Paper.

Tapper was the Washington correspondent for Salon from 1999 to 2002. Tapper's reports about Enron were nominated for a 2002 Columbia University School of Journalism online award, and he was an early questioner of the Bush administration's claims about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.{{cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=2003 |title=The Hyping of Saddam's WMD |url=http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/06/18/wmd/print.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607024425/http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/06/18/wmd/print.html |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |website=Salon}}

In 2001, Tapper was the host of the CNN news talk show Take Five. He was also a columnist for TALK Magazine, and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. Tapper was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and his work was included in The Best American Political Writing 2002. Tapper was the correspondent for a series of VH1 news specials in 2002.

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ABC News hired Tapper in 2003. While working there, Tapper covered a range of topics including work in the ABC News Baghdad bureau, from New Orleans after the failure of the levees after Hurricane Katrina, and from Afghanistan.{{cite web |date=April 16, 2012 |title=Meet Jake Tapper |website=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jake-tapper/story?id=127673 |access-date=January 9, 2016 |archive-date=December 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216044447/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jake-tapper/story?id=127673 |url-status=live }} From March to July 2010, Tapper was interim anchor of ABC's This Week, hosting the program until Christiane Amanpour became This Week{{'}}s anchor.

Tapper was named Senior White House Correspondent on November 5, 2008, the day after the 2008 presidential election. In 2010, 2011, and 2012, the White House Correspondents' Association awarded him the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. He was a key part of the ABC News coverage of the inauguration of President Obama that was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story.

Tapper was passed over as a candidate to replace George Stephanopoulos as anchor of This Week when Stephanopoulos was chosen to replace Diane Sawyer as co-host of Good Morning America after she became the anchor of World News.{{cite news |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |author-link=Howard Kurtz |date=December 11, 2009 |title=The easygoing 'GMA'? His going wasn't easy. |newspaper=The Washington Post |pages=C01 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121004313.html |access-date=December 18, 2009 |archive-date=February 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206190246/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121004313.html |url-status=live }} CNN's Christiane Amanpour was selected as Stephanopoulos' replacement instead. Tapper served as the interim anchor until Amanpour took over the show on August 1, 2010.{{cite web |last=Venkataraman |first=Nitya |date=March 18, 2010 |title=Christiane Amanpour Named 'This Week' Anchor |publisher=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour-named-this-week-anchor/story?id=10134734 |access-date=July 7, 2011 |archive-date=December 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080024/https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour-named-this-week-anchor/story?id=10134734 |url-status=live }} Ultimately, Amanpour went back to CNN and Stephanopoulous decided he wanted to return to the position.

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Tapper contributed regularly to Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News with Diane Sawyer. In addition to anchoring World News and Good Morning America weekend editions and Nightline, Tapper was a frequent substitute host of This Week and served as interim host for much of 2010, scoring the first TV interview with CIA director Leon Panetta, as well as exclusives with Vice President Biden, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, retired General Colin Powell, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, in addition to interviews with other newsmakers, such as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

As senior White House correspondent, Tapper interviewed President Obama several times. Before his assignment at the White House, Tapper was ABC News' national/senior political correspondent based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau. He contributed a report to a broadcast of World News Tonight with Peter Jennings that won the 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award for best network newscast. As ABC News' lead reporter covering the 2008 presidential election, he received recognition for both breaking stories and even-handedness. Traveling from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina and beyond, Tapper interviewed both Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois), as well as other White House hopefuls including former Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina), former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

It was announced December 20, 2012, that Tapper would join CNN and would anchor a new weekday program and serve as the network's chief Washington correspondent.{{cite web |last=Beaujon |first=Andrew |date=December 20, 2012 |title=Jake Tapper leaves ABC to anchor show for CNN |publisher=Poynter Institute |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/jake-tapper-leaves-abc-for-cnn/ |access-date=September 7, 2020 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108222834/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/jake-tapper-leaves-abc-for-cnn/ |url-status=live }} He began with CNN in January 2013, hosting his own program, The Lead with Jake Tapper.

The Lead with Jake Tapper won three National Headliner Awards for its reporting in 2013. Among broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators, The Lead with Jake Tapper won first prize for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and second prize for its coverage of the Oklahoma tornadoes in the category of "Coverage of a Major News Event." It won third prize for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing in the category of "Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event."{{cite web |title=National Headliner Awards: 2014 Winners |url=http://www.headlinerawards.com/Winners2014Broadcast.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219221547/https://www.headlinerawards.com/Winners2014Broadcast.html |archive-date=December 19, 2014 |website=National Headliner Awards |publisher=}} In 2014, The Lead was honored for a series of reports on academic fraud at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by correspondent Sara Ganim with a Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners |url=http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1338 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020234836/https://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1338 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |access-date=January 9, 2016 |website=Society of Professional Journalists |publisher=}}

The Lead has been nominated for numerous News & Documentary Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Live News Broadcast.{{cite web |title=News: 2022 Nominees |url=https://theemmys.tv/news/43rd-nominations/ |website=The Emmys |date=July 28, 2022 |publisher=National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=17 January 2024 |archive-date=December 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201072025/https://theemmys.tv/news/43rd-nominations/ |url-status=live }} A report for The Lead by correspondent Isa Sores, called "Madua's Blood Gold", was awarded an Emmy in 2020;{{cite web |date=September 22, 2020 |title=CNN Wins a Network-Record 7 News and Documentary Emmy® Awards |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2020/09/22/cnn-wins-a-network-record-7-news-and-documentary-emmy-awards/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923050223/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2020/09/22/cnn-wins-a-network-record-7-news-and-documentary-emmy-awards/ |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=CNN Press Room |publisher=CNN}} a story by Anna Coren on a "9-Year-Old Afghan Sold into Marriage" was awarded an Emmy in 2022.

In January 2015, Tapper's reporting on a new Pentagon policy{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/30/politics/pentagon-wounded-veterans-caregiver-budget-cuts?cid=ios_app |title=Fighting for wounded warriors: CNN helps save funding for caregivers for our nation's wounded | CNN Politics |first1=Jake |last1=Tapper |first2=Kim |last2=Berryman |date=January 30, 2015 |work=CNN |access-date=June 21, 2024 |archive-date=June 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621144303/https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/30/politics/pentagon-wounded-veterans-caregiver-budget-cuts?cid=ios_app |url-status=live}} resulted in the U.S. military changing a rule that was adversely impacting caregivers — "non-medical attendants" or NMAs — for wounded servicemembers. The Pentagon had started to limit reimbursements for NMAs as they worked with servicemembers who had been severely wounded, often with missing limbs or debilitating brain injuries. Upon Tapper's inquiry, the Pentagon reinstated the previous policy. Said the Pentagon spokesman: "We want to thank you, Jake and CNN, for bringing it to our attention because we had not seen this unintended consequence of what was, in every other respect, a very sound and judicious financial policy. But you brought it to our attention. And we were able to get it changed within a week."

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 2024, Tapper reported on Gold Star families protesting a 2014 change in policy{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/politics/gold-star-families-abmc-restore-program-tapper-cnntv/index.html|title=After CNN report, White House bringing back program for Gold Star families to honor service members buried abroad | CNN Politics|first=Jake|last=Tapper|date=June 19, 2024|website=CNN|access-date=June 21, 2024|archive-date=June 21, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621144303/https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/politics/gold-star-families-abmc-restore-program-tapper-cnntv/index.html|url-status=live}} by the American Battle Monuments Commission that had previously allowed families to pay for flowers, which the ABMC would ensure be placed on the graves of their loved ones in cemeteries abroad, such as Normandy. After the piece aired, crediting Tapper, the White House pushed the ABMC to change the policy back.

In June 2015, Tapper became host of CNN's Sunday political show, State of the Union with Jake Tapper. There, he has become known for challenging politicians of all stripes, including challenging Senator Bernie Sanders to release his tax returns;{{cite web |date=April 3, 2016 |title=Bernie Sanders on releasing his tax returns: 'My wife does our tax returns. We have been a little bit busy lately.' |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/04/03/bernie-sanders-on-releasing-his-tax-returns-my-wife-does-our-tax-returns-we-have-been-a-little-bit-busy-lately/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404041236/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/04/03/bernie-sanders-on-releasing-his-tax-returns-my-wife-does-our-tax-returns-we-have-been-a-little-bit-busy-lately/ |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=CNN Press Room |publisher=CNN}} asking Jeb Bush why Hillary Clinton is responsible for Benghazi if his brother George W. Bush bears no responsibility for the terrorist attacks on 9/11;{{cite web |last=Tesfaye |first=Sophia |date=October 19, 2015 |title=Jake Tapper stuns Jeb Bush: If your brother is blameless for 9/11 why is Hillary Clinton responsible for Benghazi? |website=Salon.com |url=http://www.salon.com/2015/10/19/jake_tapper_stuns_jeb_bush_if_your_brother_is_blameless_for_911_why_is_hillary_clinton_responsible_for_benghazi/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108124437/https://www.salon.com/2015/10/19/jake_tapper_stuns_jeb_bush_if_your_brother_is_blameless_for_911_why_is_hillary_clinton_responsible_for_benghazi/ |url-status=live }} asking Hillary Clinton about the FBI investigation into her private email server;{{cite web |last=Husband |first=Andrew |date=October 17, 2015 |title=Watch Hillary Clinton Laugh Through Jake Tapper's Email Question |url=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-hillary-clinton-laugh-through-jake-tappers-email-question/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030210424/https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-hillary-clinton-laugh-through-jake-tappers-email-question/ |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |website=Mediaite}} and asking Donald Trump if he would denounce support from white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and David Duke{{cite web |last=Campbell |first=Colin |date=February 28, 2016 |title=CNN anchor Jake Tapper asks Donald Trump 3 times if he would condemn David Duke and the KKK |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-anchor-jake-tapper-donald-trump-david-duke-kkk-2016-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109203330/https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-anchor-jake-tapper-donald-trump-david-duke-kkk-2016-2 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |website=Business Insider}}—referred to days later as "the infamous Tapper-Trump exchange" by Mitt Romney{{cite news |last=Bradner |first=Eric |date=March 3, 2016 |title=Romney implores: Bring down Trump |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/mitt-romney-presidential-race-speech/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212131033/https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/mitt-romney-presidential-race-speech/ |archive-date=December 12, 2020 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |website=CNN}} in his March 2016 speech condemning Trump.

On September 16, 2015, Tapper moderated two Republican primary debates from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.{{cite web |date=September 16, 2015 |title=CNN Reagan Library Debate: Later Debate Full Transcript |url=http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/09/16/cnn-reagan-library-debate-later-debate-full-transcript/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921040117/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/09/16/cnn-reagan-library-debate-later-debate-full-transcript/ |archive-date=September 21, 2015 |access-date=January 9, 2016 |website=CNN Press Room |publisher=CNN}} The main debate drew an average of 23.1 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 March 10, 2016 Republican presidential debate in Miami, which drew almost 12 million viewers and according to Variety "garnered acclaim for its substance."

In 2017, he received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.{{Cite web|url=https://learcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CronkiteAwardWinners2017.pdf|title=With News Under Fire, 2017 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism Celebrate Legitimacy, Urgency of Quality Reporting|access-date=June 5, 2018|archive-date=November 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108034635/https://learcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CronkiteAwardWinners2017.pdf|url-status=dead}} Also in 2017, he received the John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.{{cite web |date=June 29, 2017 |title=RTDNA announces 2017 John F. Hogan Award winner |url=https://www.rtdna.org/article/rtdna_announces_2017_john_f_hogan_award_winner/ |access-date=June 5, 2018 |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020153211/https://rtdna.org/article/rtdna_announces_2017_john_f_hogan_award_winner |url-status=dead }}

In 2018, Tapper was part of a four-person team at CNN that included Carl Bernstein, Jim Sciutto, and Evan Perez that won the Merriman Smith Award for broadcast reporting on the White House under deadline pressure.{{cite web|title=2018 Award Winners|url=https://www.whca.press/awards/2018-winners/|publisher=White House Correspondents' Association|date=2018|access-date=November 21, 2020|archive-date=September 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927122812/https://www.whca.press/awards/2018-winners/|url-status=live}}

Following the contentious first 2020 presidential election debate, Tapper garnered attention for his response. He called it a "hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck".{{Cite web|last=Bowden|first=John|date=2020-09-29|title=CNN's Jake Tapper calls debate a 'hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck'|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/518879-cnns-jake-tapper-calls-debate-a-hot-mess-inside-a-dumpster-fire-inside-a-train|access-date=2021-03-16|website=TheHill|language=en|archive-date=February 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203042925/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/518879-cnns-jake-tapper-calls-debate-a-hot-mess-inside-a-dumpster-fire-inside-a-train|url-status=live}}

In January 2021, before the Inauguration of Joe Biden, CNN announced that Tapper's role would expand to be the network's "lead anchor for all major Washington events", including election nights. Additionally, they announced that Dana Bash would join Tapper as a co-host on State of the Union, alternating hosting weeks.{{Cite web|author=Brian Stelter|title=CNN announces promotions for Jake Tapper, Abby Phillip, Dana Bash and others|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/media/cnn-washington-dc-anchors-correspondents/index.html|access-date=2021-01-11|website=CNN|date=January 11, 2021|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111200941/https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/media/cnn-washington-dc-anchors-correspondents/index.html|url-status=live}}

In 2024, Tapper moderated a Republican primary Debate alongside Dana Bash between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley before the Iowa caucuses; it was viewed by around 2.6 million people.{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/cnn-debate-fox-news-town-hall-viewers-d5478967c2a1bac2ae3ed00139a1e494 | title=Fox town hall with Trump draws more TV viewers than debate between Haley and DeSantis | website=Associated Press News | date=January 11, 2024 | access-date=February 21, 2024 | archive-date=January 12, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112015042/https://apnews.com/article/cnn-debate-fox-news-town-hall-viewers-d5478967c2a1bac2ae3ed00139a1e494 | url-status=live }} He also co-moderated the 2024 presidential election debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden alongside Bash in which Biden's poor performance led to his withdrawal from the race.

In September 2024, in an interview with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, Tapper misrepresented a statement from Michigan U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in an interview with the Detroit Metro Times, falsely rendering her criticism of Michigan attorney general as antisemitic.{{Cite web |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |date=2024-09-24 |title=CNN Anchors Won't Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/09/24/cnn-rashida-tlaib-dana-nessel-antisemitism/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}} After rebuke from the Detroit Metro Times,{{cite web |last=Neavling |first=Steve |date=23 September 2024 |title=Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she's Jewish |url=https://www.metrotimes.com/news/fact-check-tlaib-did-not-say-nessel-charged-pro-palestinian-protesters-because-shes-jewish-37427661 |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=Metro Times}} Tapper said in an interview with Nessel that he "misspoke", that he "was trying to characterize [Nessel's] views of Tlaib's comments".{{cite magazine |last=Olmsted |first=Edith |date=24 September 2024 |title=CNN Anchors Have Pathetic Defense for Lying on Air About Rashida Tlaib |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/186322/cnn-jake-tapper-dana-bash-rashida-tlaib |access-date=26 September 2024 |magazine=The New Republic |quote="I should note that I misspoke yesterday when asking a follow-up of Governor Whitmer who I asked about this. I was trying to characterize your views of Tlaib's comments," Tapper said to Nessel.}}{{cite web |first=Branko |last=Marcetic |url=https://jacobin.com/2024/09/rashida-tlaib-antisemitism-palestinians-media |title=The Slander Against Rashida Tlaib Proves Her Point |date=24 September 2024|access-date=27 September 2024 |website=Jacobin}}

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Tapper has contributed to GQ, The Weekly Standard, NPR's All Things Considered, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In 2001, he hosted the program Take Five on CNN, in which young journalists and commentators discussed politics and pop culture. In 2002, he hosted a series of entertainment news specials on VH1, and in 2003, he hosted shows focused on independent film on the Sundance Channel. Tapper has also been a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conan, The View, Real Time with Bill Maher, and appeared on the Judge John Hodgman podcast as guest bailiff, standing in for regular bailiff Jesse Thorn during the August 31, 2011 episode entitled "De Plane".{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Julia |date=August 31, 2011 |title=Judge John Hodgman Episode 34: De Plane |publisher=Maximum Fun |url=http://maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/judge-john-hodgman-episode-34-de-plane |access-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-date=November 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107041945/https://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/judge-john-hodgman-episode-34-de-plane |url-status=live }}

In October 2022, Tapper wrote a cover story for The Atlantic magazine{{cite web |last1=Tapper |first1=Jake |date=October 12, 2022 |title=This Is Not Justice: A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118050002/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/ |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |access-date=January 17, 2024 |website=The Atlantic |publisher=The Atlantic Monthly Group}} about C.J. Rice, a former patient of his father's serving 30–60 years in prison for a crime his father was convinced Rice was physically incapable of committing. Tapper's story detailed the various ways Rice had inadequate counsel. In December 2023, Rice's conviction was overturned{{cite web |last1=Quinn |first1=Liam |date=November 29, 2023 |title=Man Imprisoned as Teen Has Conviction Overturned Following Exposé on Incompetent Lawyer by CNN's Jake Tapper |url=https://people.com/cj-rice-conviction-overturned-incompetent-lawyer-expose-cnn-jake-tapper-8407619 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111173941/https://people.com/cj-rice-conviction-overturned-incompetent-lawyer-expose-cnn-jake-tapper-8407619 |archive-date=January 11, 2024 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=People |publisher=Dotdash Meredith}} and in March 2024, Rice was exonerated. On March 18, 2024, Tapper broke the news{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2024 |title=CJ Rice is freed after more than a dozen years in prison |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2024/03/18/cj-rice-philadelphia-crime-innocent-expunged-jake-tapper-the-lead.cnn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320203945/https://www.cnn.com/videos/justice/2024/03/18/cj-rice-philadelphia-crime-innocent-expunged-jake-tapper-the-lead.cnn |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |via=CNN}} that Pennsylvania had freed and dropped the charges against C.J. Rice, a Philadelphian who had been in prison since 2011 whose case became prominent after Tapper wrote a cover story for The Atlantic{{Cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=October 12, 2022 |title=This Is Not Justice |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111173941/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/ |archive-date=January 11, 2024 |access-date=January 11, 2024 |website=The Atlantic |via=}} called "This Is Not Justice; A Philadelphia Teenager and the Empty Promise of the Sixth Amendment." In the story, Tapper argued that Rice's defense attorney had been so incompetent, he had been denied Constitutional guarantees of counsel. Rice had been arrested for a 2011 shooting crime despite the fact that his pediatrician, Tapper's father, Dr. Theodore S. Tapper, testified that he could barely walk, let alone run, because he himself was recovering from a shooting, but this and so many other exonerating facts made no difference at trial because of his inadequate representation. After the story was published and Tapper covered the case on CNN and as a guest on CBS This Morning, the District Attorney ordered an internal investigation of the crime and ultimately granted a habeas petition from Rice's attorney. His conviction was overturned in December 2023, and he was exonerated{{Cite web |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=March 18, 2024 |title=Finally, Justice |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/cj-rice-philadelphia-exonerated/677787/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320203945/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/cj-rice-philadelphia-exonerated/677787/ |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=The Atlantic}} in March 2024.

Tapper made a cameo in the Halloween-themed episode of The Rookie (October 30, 2022). He wore a Mike Schmidt Philadelphia Phillies jersey; Schmidt was the MVP of the 1980 World Series. Tapper's son, Jack, appeared alongside him, dressed up as Tom Hanks' character Captain Miller from Saving Private Ryan. Tapper and his son watched the show together while locked down due to COVID-19, and he wanted to share his appreciation for the program. Tapper posted a Tweet to Nathan Fillion; according to Tapper, Fillion wrote back and invited the pair for a set visit once COVID protocols were eased. Just before the visit, Fillion asked whether the father and son wanted to film a cameo on the show.{{Cite web |last=Joyella |first=Mark |title=CNN's Jake Tapper Makes Trick-Or-Treating Cameo On ABC's 'The Rookie' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/10/31/cnns-jake-tapper-makes-trick-or-treating-cameo-on-abcs-the-rookie/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031181726/https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/10/31/cnns-jake-tapper-makes-trick-or-treating-cameo-on-abcs-the-rookie/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Tornoe |first=Rob |date=October 30, 2022 |title=Jake Tapper to appear on ABC's 'The Rookie' wearing a special Phillies jersey |url=https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/abc-the-rookie-jake-tapper-nathan-fillion-phillies-jersey-mike-schmidt-20221030.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031181726/https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/tv/abc-the-rookie-jake-tapper-nathan-fillion-phillies-jersey-mike-schmidt-20221030.html |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=The Philadelphia Inquirer |language=en}}

In December 2024, Tapper appeared in the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, discussing and judging the criterion sketches from the Lonely Island’s time at Saturday Night Live.

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On April 24, 2018, Little, Brown and Company published Tapper's first novel, a political thriller entitled The Hellfire Club. The novel follows a fictitious freshman Congressman discovering corruption and conspiracy in 1950s Washington, at the height of the McCarthy era.{{cite news |last=Charles |first=Ron |date=April 23, 2018 |title=Review {{!}} Jake Tapper's new political thriller is at its best when it's most bonkers |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/jake-tappers-new-thriller-blows-the-lid-off-corruption-in-washington/2018/04/23/e346f834-44d9-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html |access-date=May 14, 2018 |archive-date=December 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111606/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/jake-tappers-new-thriller-blows-the-lid-off-corruption-in-washington/2018/04/23/e346f834-44d9-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html |url-status=live }} The book debuted at Number 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover fiction, and remained on the Best Seller list for four weeks total. The Associated Press called The Hellfire Club "insightful... well-written and worthwhile."{{cite news |date=April 25, 2018 |title=Review: Jake Tapper's 'Hellfire Club' is insightful novel |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/entertainment/review-jake-tapper-hellfire-club-insightful-article-1.3954104 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142610/http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/entertainment/review-jake-tapper-hellfire-club-insightful-article-1.3954104 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=June 4, 2018 |work=New York Daily News}} Tablet Magazine called the novel "startlingly good."{{cite news |last=Aciman |first=Alexander |date=May 7, 2018 |title=Bookworm: Jake Tapper's Spy Novel Is Startlingly Good |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/261361/jake-tapper-spy-novel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205033557/https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/261361/jake-tapper-spy-novel |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |access-date=June 5, 2018 |work=Tablet |publisher=}} USA Today said the author "sizzles" and "proves he has the page-turning knack in his entertaining debut novel."{{cite news |last=McClurg |first=Jocelyn |date=April 24, 2018 |title=CNN's Jake Tapper sizzles with 'The Hellfire Club,' his D.C.-set 1950s thriller |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/04/24/book-review-hellfire-club-jake-tapper-mccarthy-era-thriller/543899002/ |access-date=June 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618151805/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/04/24/book-review-hellfire-club-jake-tapper-mccarthy-era-thriller/543899002/ |url-status=live }} The sequel to The Hellfire Club, The Devil May Dance, was released in May 2021, and continues the story of the lives of Charlie and Margaret Marder.{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=2021-05-08 |title=Jake Tapper's Hero Is Embedded With the Rat Pack, Hoping to Catch a Rat |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/books/jake-tapper-devil-may-dance.html |access-date=2023-02-28 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228182330/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/books/jake-tapper-devil-may-dance.html |url-status=live }} In 2023, the third volume in the series, All the Demons Are Here, was published.{{Cite news |last=Simon |first=Scott |date=July 8, 2023 |title=Jake Tapper on his 1970s thriller 'All the Demons Are Here' |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/07/08/1186631648/jake-tapper-on-his-1970s-thriller-all-the-demons-are-here |work=Weekend Edition Saturday |publisher=NPR}}

Tapper is also the author of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, a critically acclaimed book about U.S. troops in Afghanistan that debuted at number 10 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardback non-fiction. Bob Woodward described the book as "Brilliant, dedicated reporting by a journalist who goes to ground to get the truth. A sad, real tale about this war, America and the brave warriors who live—and die—at the point of the spear" and Jon Krakauer called it "a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book."{{cite book |last1=Tapper |first1=Jake |title=The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELMkPP4qfbUC |date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-21585-5 |access-date=17 January 2024 |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604165552/https://books.google.com/books?id=ELMkPP4qfbUC |url-status=live }} In 2014, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society recognized Tapper for the book and his reporting on military topics in general with the Tex McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism. A Rod Lurie-directed film adaptation of The Outpost was released in July 2020, starring Milo Gibson, Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood and Caleb Landry Jones.{{cite web |last=D'Alessandro |first=Anthony |date=August 17, 2018 |title=Milo Gibson Inks With Alchemy For Management, Boards Rod Lurie's 'The Outpost' |website=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/cnn-jake-tapper-novel-movie-the-outpost-milo-gibson-alchemy-management-1202447696/ |access-date=December 8, 2018 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124190719/https://deadline.com/2018/08/cnn-jake-tapper-novel-movie-the-outpost-milo-gibson-alchemy-management-1202447696/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=August 21, 2018 |title='The Outpost': York Films Signs On To Afghan War Pic Based On Jake Tapper Book |website=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2018/08/the-outpost-rod-lurie-jack-tapper-afghanistan-york-films-millennium-media-1202449255/ |access-date=December 8, 2018 |archive-date=August 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819145354/https://deadline.com/2018/08/the-outpost-rod-lurie-jack-tapper-afghanistan-york-films-millennium-media-1202449255/ |url-status=live }}

In addition to The Outpost, Tapper is the author of Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, based on the 2000 Presidential election, that The Washington Post called "lively", the Chicago Tribune called "a churning effusion well worth reading", and The Daily Telegraph called "engrossing". He also wrote Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story (St. Martin's Press) that was excerpted by The Washington Post Magazine.

His comic strip Capitol Hell appeared in Roll Call from 1994 to 2003. He has also contributed cartoons to The American Spectator magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2014, Tapper wrote the introduction to The Complete Peanuts 1993 to 1994.{{Cite book |last=Schulz |first=Charles M. |title=The Complete Peanuts 1993 to 1994 |publisher=Fantagraphics |year=2014 |isbn=978-1606997734}} During the week of May 23, 2016, Tapper guest-illustrated the Dilbert cartoon. The original drawings were auctioned online to raise money for the Homes for our Troops Foundation.{{cite web |last=Manduley |first=Christina |title=Jake Tapper guest illustrates Dilbert cartoon to be auctioned for charity |website=CNN |date=May 23, 2016 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/us/tapper-cartoon-dilbert/ |access-date=December 1, 2016 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322122548/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/us/tapper-cartoon-dilbert/ |url-status=live }}

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again is due to be published in 2025.

As the Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News, Tapper was honored with three Merriman Smith Memorial Awards for broadcast journalism. The first Merriman Smith Memorial Award was for reporting noncompliance of laws regulating tax reporting by the Department of Health and Human Services secretary nominee and former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle,{{cite web |date=January 30, 2009 |title=Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver |publisher=ABC News |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/bumps-in-the-ro.html |access-date=July 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718105724/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/bumps-in-the-ro.html |archive-date=July 18, 2011}} troubles that ultimately derailed Daschle's nomination. The second was for the 2010 story that President Obama had asked for the resignation of his Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis C. Blair (retired). The third time was for breaking the 2011 story that the ratings agency Standard and Poor's was expected to downgrade the United States' AAA rating for government debt. As a CNN anchor, he was awarded his fourth Merriman Smith Award in 2018 as part of a team that broke the news that President-elect Donald Trump and President Obama had been briefed on the Steele dossier alleging that Russia had blackmail material on Trump.{{cite web |date=April 2, 2018 |title=Maggie Haberman, Josh Dawsey, Jake Tapper, and More Honored With WHCA Awards |url=https://www.mediaite.com/online/maggie-haberman-josh-dawsey-jake-tapper-and-more-honored-with-whca-awards/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114094230/https://www.mediaite.com/online/maggie-haberman-josh-dawsey-jake-tapper-and-more-honored-with-whca-awards/ |archive-date=November 14, 2020 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=Mediaite}}

In 2017, Tapper won several awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. The judges pointed to his fearless advocacy for the truth and relentless interviewing style.{{cite news |title=The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism – The Norman Lear Center |url=https://learcenter.org/project/ca/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926083820/https://learcenter.org/project/ca/ |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |work=Norman Lear Center}} He also won RTDNA's John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award, which "recognizes an individual's contributions to the journalism profession and freedom of the press",{{cite web |title=Jake Tapper accepts John F. Hogan Award |url=https://www.rtdna.org/article/jake_tapper_accepts_john_f_hogan_award |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927121018/https://www.rtdna.org/article/jake_tapper_accepts_john_f_hogan_award |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=Radio Television Digital News Association}} as well as CJF's Tribute Award, which awards those who uphold the highest standards of journalism and inspire journalists around the world.{{cite web |date=Apr 25, 2017 |title=CJF Awards to celebrate excellence in journalism, honour CNN's Jake Tapper |url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cjf-awards-to-celebrate-excellence-in-journalism-honour-cnns-jake-tapper-620364263.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805154308/https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cjf-awards-to-celebrate-excellence-in-journalism-honour-cnns-jake-tapper-620364263.html |archive-date=August 5, 2019 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=Canada Newswire |publisher=Canadian Journalism Foundation}} Moment Magazine gave him its inaugural Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award for his "relentless quest for the truth and accountability".{{cite news |date=December 7, 2017 |title=Video {{!}} Jake Tapper: 'This Year the Truth Is Very Uncomfortable' |url=https://www.momentmag.com/jake-tapper-journalism-2017/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807212315/https://momentmag.com/jake-tapper-journalism-2017/ |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |work=Moment}} The Dartmouth Club of Washington gave him the Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service.{{cite web |title=2017 Daniel Webster Award for Distinguished Public Service Dinner |url=http://dc1.dartmouth.org/s/1353/clubs-classes-interior.aspx?sid=1353&pgid=11985&gid=12&cid=29311&ecid=29311&post_id=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108221405/http://dc1.dartmouth.org/s/1353/clubs-classes15/index.aspx?sid=1353&pgid=11985&gid=12&cid=29311&ecid=29311&post_id=0 |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=Dartmouth Club of Washington DC}}

In 2018, Tapper won a Vetty, recognizing his coverage of veterans' issues.{{cite web |title=Vettys2018 |website=AUSV |url=http://vettys.org/the-vettys/ |access-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526182844/http://vettys.org/the-vettys |url-status=dead }} He has served alongside press corps veterans in Washington, D.C., for 14 years.{{Cite web |title=CNN's Jake Tapper '91 talks Twitter, history, and cartooning for "The Dartmouth" |url=https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/content/cnns-jake-tapper-91-talks-twitter-history-and-cartooning-dartmouth |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219081727/https://alumni.dartmouth.edu/content/cnns-jake-tapper-91-talks-twitter-history-and-cartooning-dartmouth |archive-date=2017-02-19 |access-date=2021-10-22 |website=Dartmouth Alumni |language=en}}

On July 6, 2009, television personality Dan Abrams launched a website, Mediaite, reporting on media figures and ranking all TV-based journalists in America by influence; for December 2010, Tapper ranked at number two.{{cite web |title=Jake Tapper |work=Mediaite |url=http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Jake+Tapper |access-date=December 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123062527/http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Jake+Tapper |archive-date=November 23, 2010}} He remains a mainstay of the annual list, recognized in 2018 for his "ability to hold Republicans and Democrats to account equally" and "his 2018 noteworthy moments; the harrowing Parkland town hall, a stellar one-on-one with James Comey, and his regular sparring matches with Trump officials."{{cite web |title=Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2018 |date=December 6, 2018 |url=https://www.mediaite.com/online/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2018/5/ |access-date=December 11, 2018 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108112611/https://www.mediaite.com/online/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2018/5/ |url-status=live }} In 2022, Mediate called Tapper "the top dog who could represent the CNN brand."{{Cite web |date=2022-12-13 |title=Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2022 – Part 7 |url=https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2022/7/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Mediaite |language=en |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110171314/https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2022/7/ |url-status=live }} In 2023, he ranked number seven and it was noted that his "skills as an interrogator are arguably unrivaled on cable news right now."{{Cite web |date=2023-12-20 |title=Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2023 – Part 8 |url=https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2023/8/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Mediaite |language=en |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110165559/https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2023/8/ |url-status=live }} In 2024, Tapper was ranked 23rd and recognized as one of America’s preeminent anchors, earning headlines for moderating a presidential debate and championing the release of C.J. Rice, a man wrongfully convicted of a 2011 shooting.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Mediaite |date=2024-12-18 |title=Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2024 - Part 7 |url=https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2024/7/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=Mediaite |language=en}}

In 2016, The Lead was honored with two National Headliner Awards: Best Newscast (Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks, and Syndicators) and Best Coverage of a Major News Event (Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks, and Syndicators Newscast) for the show's coverage of the November 2015 Paris attacks.{{cite web |title=2016 National Headliners Award list of winners |url=http://www.headlinerawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016headlinerwinners.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930005321/https://www.headlinerawards.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016headlinerwinners.pdf |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |access-date=April 15, 2016 |website=Headliner Awards}}

The Los Angeles Press Club gave Tapper its 2017 President's Award for Impact on Media. "During a divisive election, Jake Tapper was willing to take on politicians from both sides of the aisle", the Press Club president said. "His effective interview style cuts to the core. He is willing to ask the tough questions, listen carefully, and then follow up with precisely the right response to get to the heart of the matter."{{cite web |title=CNN's Jake Tapper to Receive the Presidents Award |url=http://lapressclub.org/presidents_award_2017/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319022422/http://lapressclub.org/presidents_award_2017/ |archive-date=March 19, 2017 |access-date=March 18, 2017 |website=Los Angeles Press Club }}

Also in 2017, Tapper was named Radio Television Digital News Association's John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award winner. The award "recognizes an individual's contributions to the journalism profession and freedom of the press."{{Cite web |title=John F. Hogan Award |url=https://www.rtdna.org/john-f-hogan-award |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110170610/https://www.rtdna.org/john-f-hogan-award |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Radio Television Digital News Association}}

Tapper also has two honorary degrees, from UMass Amherst{{cite web |title=CNN Anchor Jake Tapper, Pearl Harbor Veteran Len Gardner to Receive Honorary Degrees at UMass Amherst Commencement on May 11 {{!}} Commencement 2018 |url=https://www.umass.edu/commencement/news/cnn-anchor-jake-tapper-pearl-harbor-veteran-len-gardner-receive-honorary-degrees-umass-amherst |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817192737/https://www.umass.edu/commencement/news/cnn-anchor-jake-tapper-pearl-harbor-veteran-len-gardner-receive-honorary-degrees-umass-amherst |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=UMass Amherst}} and Dartmouth.{{cite web |date=April 4, 2017 |title=Dartmouth to Award Nine Honorary Degrees at Commencement |url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/04/dartmouth-award-nine-honorary-degrees-commencement |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125162423/https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/04/dartmouth-award-nine-honorary-degrees-commencement |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |website=Dartmouth News}}

Tapper won won an 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".{{Cite web |last=Coates |first=Tyler |date=2023-09-28 |title=CNN and Vice Lead 44th Annual News Emmy Awards |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2023-news-emmys-winners-list-1235602933/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} He also won an 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.{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Michael |date=2024-09-26 |title='It's Bisan From Gaza and I'm Still Alive' Wins News & Doc Emmy Despite Calls For Its Disqualification; Big Winners Include CNN, ABC, Nat Geo |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/news-doc-emmy-winners-cnn-abc-nat-geo-its-bisan-from-gaza-1236156333/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

Tapper went on a platonic date with Monica Lewinsky in December 1997, a few weeks before news broke of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. He wrote about the experience in a January 1998 issue of the Washington City Paper and the two later discussed the date on an October 5, 2021 episode of his CNN program, The Lead with Jake Tapper.{{cite web |last=Dicker |first=Ron |date=October 6, 2021 |title=Jake Tapper and Monica Lewinsky Revisit Their 1997 Dinner Date |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-monica-lewinsky-date_n_615dd2b4e4b084c8240fd474 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502182418/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-monica-lewinsky-date_n_615dd2b4e4b084c8240fd474 |archive-date=May 2, 2022 |access-date=May 2, 2022 |website=HuffPost}}

In 2006, Tapper married Jennifer Marie Brown, a former Planned Parenthood official,{{cite web |last=Guttman |first=Nathan |date=February 24, 2017 |title=Jake Tapper: From Jewish day school troublemaker to Trump's worst nightmare |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/how-jake-tapper-turned-into-trumps-worst-nightmare-1.5438940 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122125852/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/how-jake-tapper-turned-into-trumps-worst-nightmare-1.5438940 |archive-date=November 22, 2020 |access-date=August 24, 2020 |website=Haaretz}} in her home state of Missouri. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.{{cite news |last=Heim |first=Joe |date=February 1, 2018 |title=Jake Tapper on the challenges of reporting news today: 'Everybody's a media critic.' |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/jake-tapper-on-the-challenges-of-reporting-news-today-everybodys-a-media-critic/2018/01/29/533393e8-f58c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html |access-date=December 27, 2019 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109012507/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/jake-tapper-on-the-challenges-of-reporting-news-today-everybodys-a-media-critic/2018/01/29/533393e8-f58c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html |url-status=live }}

• {{Cite book |last=Tapper |first=Jake |title=Down & Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2001 |isbn=9780316832649}}
• {{Cite book |last=Tapper |first=Jake |title=The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2012 |isbn=9780008332853}}
• {{Cite book |last=Tapper |first=Jake |title=The Hellfire Club (Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery) |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2018 |isbn=9780316472302}}
• {{Cite book |last=Tapper |first=Jake |title=The Devil May Dance: A Novel (Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery, 2) |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2021 |isbn=9780316530231}}
• {{Cite book |last=Tapper |first=Jake |title=All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller (Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery, 3) |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2023 |isbn=9780316424592}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Tapper |first1=Jake |title=Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again |last2=Thompson |first2=Alex |date=2025 |publisher=Penguin Press |isbn=9798217060672}}

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