Mark Halperin

Mark Halperin, political analyst at ABC News, was a joint visiting fellow with the Institute of Politics and Shorenstein Center in the spring of 2007. He is a regular correspondent and political analyst on ABC News television and radio programs. Halperin joined ABC News in January 1988 as a desk assistant. Later that year, Halperin become a researcher for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in New York. He spent the next four years working in the investigative unit of World News Tonight and as a general assignment reporter in Washington. In 1992, he worked full-time as an off-air reporter assigned to travel with the presidential campaign of then Governor Bill Clinton. In fall of 1994 Halperin became a producer with ABC’s Special Events unit in New York. There he worked as an editorial producer, both in the control room and in the field, on events including the Iowa caucuses, the national conventions, the Oklahoma City bombing, and many other breaking news stories. Founder and editor of “The Note,” which appears daily on ABCNews.com, Halperin received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1987.