Anne Kornblut

Kornblut was raised in McLean, Virginia, the daughter of Jane (née Slaughter) and the late Arthur T. Kornblut, a lawyer with a practice in Washington, D.C.{{Cite news|last= |first= |authorlink= |title=D.C. Lawyer Arthur Kornblut Dies at Age 51 |newspaper=The Washington Post|date= May 11, 1993|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/05/11/dc-lawyer-arthur-kornblut-dies-at-age-51/5999609a-6848-43b9-af8b-9fc21a0992cc/ |access-date=}} Her sister Emily is a human rights educator. She was a National Merit Program semifinalist in 1989. She graduated from Holton-Arms School{{citation needed|date=September 2018}} in Bethesda, Maryland in 1990. She is a 1994 graduate of Columbia University.

In early 2007, Kornblut was hired by The Washington Post and became their Deputy National Editor, overseeing national politics, national security and health/science/environmental coverage. In 2013, she was the lead editor overseeing coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Public-Service|title=2014 Pulitzer Prizes – Journalism|website=Pulitzer Prize}} In her newsroom remarks on April 14, the day the Pulitzer was announced, she credited a team of more than 28 reporters, producers and designers with creating the winning coverage. "This wasn't just a case of being handed some documents to post online," Kornblut said.

{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washington-post-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-public-service-shared-with-guardian/2014/04/14/bc7c4cc6-c3fb-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html|title=Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prize for NSA spying revelations; Guardian also honored|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 14, 2014|last=Farhl|first=Paul}}

Kornblut formerly worked at The Boston Globe, for which she covered national politics and as an intern at the New York Daily News. A veteran of the 2000 and 2004 presidential races, her political reportage has included stories on the reelection campaign of George W. Bush and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Kornblut joined The New York Times in 2005. One of her assignments was to cover the political career and reelection campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton; she thereafter became one of the paper's national political correspondents.

In 2015 Kornblut joined Facebook as its director of strategic communications.

Kornblut has authored a book, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win. It was published by Random House in December 2009.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/notesfromcracked00korn|title=Notes from the Cracked Ceiling|isbn=978-0-307-46425-5|last=Kornblut|first=Anne E.|date=December 29, 2009|via=Internet Archive|website=Random House|publisher=Crown Publishers |url-access=registration}}

In 2002, she won the White House Correspondents' Association Aldo Beckman Award for her coverage of President George W. Bush’s first year in office.

In 2014, she was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as the lead editor overseeing coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations.

Also in 2014, Kornblut was awarded the prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. The newsroom announcement that day said she was "coming off a huge triumph" running the NSA coverage and that she would return to her role as deputy national editor at the end of the school year.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2014/04/28/anne-kornblut-named-stanford-university-knight-fellow/|title=Anne Kornblut named Stanford University Knight Fellow|date=April 28, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=WashPostPR}}

The Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald has claimed that Kornblut reports Republican Party sloganeering as fact.{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/23/kornblut/index.html|title=Ending the war vs. supporting the troops|first=Glenn|last=Greenwald|website=Salon|author-link=Glenn Greenwald|date=August 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221234907/http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/08/23/kornblut/index.html|archive-date=February 21, 2010}} He has also claimed she abused anonymity standards while supplying the sources of statements made by Obama administration officials.{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/06/obama/index.html|title=The joint Post/Obama defense of the Patriot Act and FISA|author-link=Glenn Greenwald|first=Glenn|last=Greenwald|website=Salon|date=October 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130232127/http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/06/obama/index.html|archive-date=January 30, 2010|via=Internet Archive}} The Daily Howler media critic Bob Somerby has leveled similar charges.

On 11 August 2008, The Atlantic Monthly magazine revealed a letter by The Washington Post's managing editor, dated 11 February 2008, addressed to the Hillary Clinton campaign manager, in which he had protested the assertion made by an addressee's spokesman that Kornblut was fired by The New York Times because of her reporting. The editor rejected the allegation, and defended her reporting as "tough, accurate and fair".{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/a/green-wash-post-letter-2-11-08.mhtml|title=Letter of complaint from the Washington Post's managing editor, Philip Bennett, February 11, 2008|publisher=The Atlantic|date=August 13, 2008|access-date=August 13, 2008|last=Green|first=Joshua|author-link=Joshua Green (journalist)}}

In 2001, Kornblut married English-born BBC News producer Mark Orchard, who worked from the Los Angeles office.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/style/weddings-anne-kornblut-mark-orchard.html?scp=1&sq=anne+kornblut&st=nyt |work=The New York Times | title=WEDDINGS; Anne Kornblut, Mark Orchard |date=2001-09-01 |access-date=2019-07-02}} They divorced sometime before 2005 when Orchard married Savannah Guthrie. In 2010 Kornblut married Jon Cohen, Vice President of Survey Research and the marriage was performed at a restaurant in St. Helena, California. Guests included Campbell Brown who served as a bridesmaid, Campbell's husband Dan Senor who did the Ketubah ceremony, and Jessica Yellin who read a poem. They have two children, son Arlo Levi and daughter Audrey Rose.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2010/07/first-look-harold-ford-jr-slams-schumer-in-memoir-out-in-aug-obama-to-visit-chrysler-gm-plants-first-family-plans-10-days-in-marthas-vineyard-002804|title=First Look: Harold Ford Jr. slams Schumer in memoir out in Aug. -- Obama to visit Chrysler, GM plants – First Family plans 10 days in Martha's Vineyard|date=July 24, 2010|last=Allen|first=Mike|author-link=Michael Allen (journalist)|website=Politico}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071103065239/http://www.observer.com/node/38574 New York Observer article on Kornblut]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfipXFJq5Y Ann Kornblut radio interview WSLR with Doug Miles]

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