About Karen Tumulty
Karen Emily Tumulty (born December 1, 1955) is a political columnist for The Washington Post. Tumulty served in several capacities with Time magazine's Washington, D.C. bureau from October 1994 to April 2010, including as Congressional correspondent, national political correspondent and White House correspondent. == Early life and education == Tumulty was born in San Antonio, Texas on December 1, 1955. She attended Crockett High School in Austin, Texas, where she graduated in 1973, and then the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and wrote for The Daily Texan, the university's student paper. She graduated with Bachelor of Arts with high honors in journalism in 1977. In 1981, she received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. == Career == Tumulty began her career in 1977 at the since-defunct San Antonio Light. === Los Angeles Times === She then spent 14 years with the Los Angeles Times, where she covered the United States Congress, economics, business, energy, and general assignment beats. While at the Times, she won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism in 1982 for large newspapers, and the National Press Foundation's Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993. === Time magazine === In 1994, Tumulty joined Time magazine.
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