Jeffrey Birnbaum
Jeff Birnbaum is an award-winning author, television commentator, and a columnist for the Washington Post. He joined the Post in March 2004. Prior to that he spent seven years as the chief of Fortune magazine's Washington bureau and two years as a senior political correspondent for Fortune’s sister publication, Time. Before joining Time in 1995, Birnbaum worked for the Wall Street Journal for 16 years. His last job at the Journal was as White House correspondent. On television he is a political analyst for Fox News Channel and is a regular panelist on PBS's Washington Week. On radio, he serves as a commentator for the national business show, Marketplace, appears frequently on Fox News Radio as a political analyst and comments every Monday morning on WBZ radio in Boston.
At the Post, Birnbaum pens a popular weekly column called On K Street, writes feature stories about the intersection of business and politics, and co-hosts political segments on WTWP, the newspaper’s radio station. Previously, as Fortune’s senior writer in D.C., Birnbaum authored the magazine’s “Power 25” survey, which assessed which lobbying groups have the most clout in the capital. Washingtonian magazine selected him as one of “Washington's 50 best and most influential journalists.”
Birnbaum is the author of four books. His latest, The Money Men, examines campaign fund-raising and was published in 2000. His first book, Showdown at Gucci Gulch, was written with Alan Murray in 1987. This classic chronicle of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, won the American Political Science Association's coveted Carey McWilliams Award in 1988. In 1992, Birnbaum's second book, The Lobbyists, was a Washington Post best seller. Madhouse, Birnbaum's third book, about President Clinton’s White House, was published in 1996.
In 1998, Birnbaum was hired as a Fox News contributor. He is featured on Fox News’ Special Report with Brit Hume as one of the show’s “Fox All Stars” and on several other Fox News programs, including Weekend Live every Sunday. He was Fox News Radio’s chief political analyst on election night 2004 and 2006. He has also appeared on Today, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, Fox News Sunday, the Charlie Rose Show, PBS’s Wall Street Week, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and CNN’s CNNfn, Inside Politics and Crossfire. He has lectured for trade and professional groups and at major universities including Harvard, Amherst, Penn, and the University of Texas. In 1994, he won the Aldo Bechman Memorial award for excellence in feature writing about the White House.
A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Birnbaum is married with three children. He graduated magna cum laude as an English major from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
Jeff Birnbaum is an award-winning author, television commentator, and a columnist for the Washington Post. He joined the Post in March 2004. Prior to that he spent seven years as the chief of Fortune magazine's Washington bureau and two years as a senior political correspondent for Fortune’s sister publication, Time. Before joining Time in 1995, Birnbaum worked for the Wall Street Journal for 16 years. His last job at the Journal was as White House correspondent. On television he is a political analyst for Fox News Channel and is a regular panelist on PBS's Washington Week. On radio, he serves as a commentator for the national business show, Marketplace, appears frequently on Fox News Radio as a political analyst and comments every Monday morning on WBZ radio in Boston.
At the Post, Birnbaum pens a popular weekly column called On K Street, writes feature stories about the intersection of business and politics, and co-hosts political segments on WTWP, the newspaper’s radio station. Previously, as Fortune’s senior writer in D.C., Birnbaum authored the magazine’s “Power 25” survey, which assessed which lobbying groups have the most clout in the capital. Washingtonian magazine selected him as one of “Washington's 50 best and most influential journalists.”
Birnbaum is the author of four books. His latest, The Money Men, examines campaign fund-raising and was published in 2000. His first book, Showdown at Gucci Gulch, was written with Alan Murray in 1987. This classic chronicle of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, won the American Political Science Association's coveted Carey McWilliams Award in 1988. In 1992, Birnbaum's second book, The Lobbyists, was a Washington Post best seller. Madhouse, Birnbaum's third book, about President Clinton’s White House, was published in 1996.
In 1998, Birnbaum was hired as a Fox News contributor. He is featured on Fox News’ Special Report with Brit Hume as one of the show’s “Fox All Stars” and on several other Fox News programs, including Weekend Live every Sunday. He was Fox News Radio’s chief political analyst on election night 2004 and 2006. He has also appeared on Today, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, Fox News Sunday, the Charlie Rose Show, PBS’s Wall Street Week, NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and CNN’s CNNfn, Inside Politics and Crossfire. He has lectured for trade and professional groups and at major universities including Harvard, Amherst, Penn, and the University of Texas. In 1994, he won the Aldo Bechman Memorial award for excellence in feature writing about the White House.
A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Birnbaum is married with three children. He graduated magna cum laude as an English major from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977.
