Jake Tapper
ABOUT JAKE TAPPER
Journalist and correspondent for CNN's weekly TV show The Lead. He won the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism.
He attended USC and Dartmouth college.
He wrote the book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor about the troops in Afghanistan. He is known for his illustrations and caricatures for the Washington Post and LA Times, as well as his comic strip "Capitol Hell."
He married Jennifer Marie Brown in 2006 and they had two children.
He has worked with Diane Sawyer of Good Morning America.
